[vdr] Re: How to delete recordings?

[Usenet-372204@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de(Klaus Schmidinger)  06.04.02 11:16

Once upon a time Klaus Schmidinger shaped the electrons to say...

>Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>>
>> The free disc display is very nice and of great help!
>>
>> But i don't understand, why VDR is not deleting the files
>> in the moment i delete them in the screen ;-)
>>
>> For example:
>> I see: uups, only 20 minute left, i have to delete some file
>> manually, else i will get pure black recordings...
>>
>> Going into the recording menu, i found deleting 3 files 30min each
>> would be enough.
>> Going back: Still only 20 minutes left.
>> Why?
>>
>> Some time later, just falling to sleep, the box makes a
>> loud(er) noise. Uuup, what's going on?
>> Now it was just deleting the files ;-)

>Actually deleting several gigabytes from a disk takes a while and
>may disturb an ongoing recording session 

Jepp. But "me", the human said: Computer delete, it's my risc.

>(I had that in the early stages of VDR, that's why I implemented 
>the delayed deleting). 

Yes, that's Ok, because it's an automatic.

>Also, if you delete a recording by accident, you still have a chance of
>getting it back by renaming the directory from *.del back to *.rec.

Ok, then it might be sufficient/possible that the
"free disk display" adds this "will be freed"-space to the "free disc" 
display?

Or do you see an unwanted sideeffect?


I think that would be a better solution for all than:

>> How may i force a "delete now"?

>Define a command in commands.conf that does this:

>Remove deleted recordings : rm -r `find /video -name '*.del'`

>(this is given without any warranty that it will work - I haven't
>explicitly tested it!).

OK, thanks. But the solution modifing the free disc estimate
seems to be more elegant. (But the tip is usfull still to
avoid the noise the deleting sometimes causes too)