[mythtv-users] Storage groups: how to set minimum free space for a drive

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Mar 21 02:12:34 UTC 2008


On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Mike Smith wrote:

> It shouldn't be doing that if you have programs that are allowed to
> auto-expire - programs should be expiring before your drive fills up.
> If you don't have stuff set to auto-expire then you're telling myth
> that you'll take care of making sure there is enough room and myth
> should just trust that you're doing that.
>
> That's how I thought it should work. There's plenty of stuff set to  
> autoexpire -- easily a few hundred GB. But nothing seems to be  
> autoexpiring from this one particular directory in the default  
> storage group, allowing it to fill up.

I would sift through your logs and see what the deal is. Are you  
deleting immediately or using a deleted group? There was a bug a while  
back where stuff that moved to the deleted folder wouldn't expire fast  
enough. I got hit by it a couple of times. It's all working for me  
now, though.


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