[mythtv-users] remove deleted recording to make bandwidth?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/2/2010 09:24, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> If I have a storage group with three disks in it and my BE wants to
> record three simultaneous programs, it should record one program to each
> spindle.  This is indeed a wonderful feature.
>
> However, if one of the disks is full but has recordings marked for
> deletion, will one of those marked-for-deletion recordings be purged to
> allow the 3 simultaneous recordings each to have their own spindle?
>    

No.  Autoexpire is only performed when there is no longer any free space 
available, or you have exceeded your 'keep so many recordings' setting.  
For what it's worth, any disk from the past decade should have no 
trouble with three simultaneous recordings.