On Montag, 20. April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote:
vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02:
vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty directories in its video directories.
From the VDR/INSTALL file:
Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the /videoX directories, since this might cause a lot of unnecessary disk access when VDR cleans up those directories and there is a large number of files and/or subdirectories
in
there.
The video directory is VDR's own space, there shall be nothing else in there. If the user puts anything non-VDR related into it (even by mistake), it's their fault.
Klaus
A pretty much simplified approach ;-)
A simple use case:
- standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability
- OS gets a seperate small partition
- /videoX get the big rest
Now install the usual suspects: vdr-burn or vdrconvert
They need a lot of temporary space. So there are two options:
- blocking ++20GB just for temporary files for burning and greating a
seperate partition
- put the temp files for burning in /videoX ;-)
Option 3: Mount your big partition onto /var/vdr (or any other point you choose) and put vdr's video directory into /var/vdr/video, and other vdr-burn temp stuff into /var/vdr/vdr-burn-temp or /var/vdr/temp/burn
As I understand it: It is a unix principle to form the directory tree based on logical structure and not on physical disk layout.
Regards Matthias