Hi All, After I have watched a show, I delete it within VDR. VDR immediately shows me there's now more free space on the disk. In reality, VDR has renamed the .rec directory to .del. Therefore the recording is not really gone, and still takes up space on my hard drive. After some time VDR removes all .del directories. Then the space is freed on the hard drive. Is it possible to let VDR immediately remove the recording from the hard drive? How does VDR decide it's time to remove all the .del directories? Kind regards, Cedric
----Origineel Bericht---- Van : cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl Datum : 08/09/2014 07:42 Aan : vdr@linuxtv.org Onderwerp : [vdr] delete recordings instead of renaming to .del? Hi All, After I have watched a show, I delete it within VDR. VDR immediately shows me there's now more free space on the disk. In reality, VDR has renamed the .rec directory to .del. Therefore the recording is not really gone, and still takes up space on my hard drive. After some time VDR removes all .del directories. Then the space is freed on the hard drive. Is it possible to let VDR immediately remove the recording from the hard drive? How does VDR decide it's time to remove all the .del directories? Kind regards, Cedric forgot my version numbers:
vdr --version Sep 8 07:36:59.454 [general.debug] using new 1.7.11+ capture code vdr (1.7.28/1.7.28) - The Video Disk Recorder epgsearchonly (0.0.1) - Direct access to epgsearch's search menu quickepgsearch (0.0.1) - Quick search for broadcasts streamdev-server (0.6.0) - VDR Streaming Server xineliboutput (1.0.90-cvs) - X11/xine-lib output plugin conflictcheckonly (0.0.1) - Direct access to epgsearch's conflict check menu sc (1.0.0pre-HG-29b7b5f231c8+) - A software emulated CAM live (0.2.0) - Live Interactive VDR Environment epgsearch (1.0.1) - search the EPG for repeats and more
On 08.09.2014 07:44, cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl wrote:
----Origineel Bericht---- Van : cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl Datum : 08/09/2014 07:42 Aan : vdr@linuxtv.org Onderwerp : [vdr] delete recordings instead of renaming to .del? Hi All, After I have watched a show, I delete it within VDR. VDR immediately shows me there's now more free space on the disk. In reality, VDR has renamed the .rec directory to .del. Therefore the recording is not really gone, and still takes up space on my hard drive. After some time VDR removes all .del directories. Then the space is freed on the hard drive.
Well, actually VDR does take into account the space used by deleted recordings. Maybe the skin you use doesn't call the proper functions to display this?
Is it possible to let VDR immediately remove the recording from the hard drive?
This could cause slow responses to menu actions, and maybe even disturb ongoing recordings.
How does VDR decide it's time to remove all the .del directories?
It does this at idle times, after some timeouts.
Klaus
forgot my version numbers: <https://bankieren.rabobank.nl/klanten/particulieren/internetbankieren/betalensparen/?index=111d2b019d8ba55564fd4025760f89ff8e605b56>vdr --version Sep 8 07:36:59.454 [general.debug] using new 1.7.11+ capture code vdr (1.7.28/1.7.28) - The Video Disk Recorder epgsearchonly (0.0.1) - Direct access to epgsearch's search menu quickepgsearch (0.0.1) - Quick search for broadcasts streamdev-server (0.6.0) - VDR Streaming Server xineliboutput (1.0.90-cvs) - X11/xine-lib output plugin conflictcheckonly (0.0.1) - Direct access to epgsearch's conflict check menu sc (1.0.0pre-HG-29b7b5f231c8+) - A software emulated CAM live (0.2.0) - Live Interactive VDR Environment epgsearch (1.0.1) - search the EPG for repeats and more
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de wrote:
On 08.09.2014 07:44, cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl wrote:
How does VDR decide it's time to remove all the .del directories?
It does this at idle times, after some timeouts.
I've seen cases where VDR failed to take into account that it hadn't actually freed the disk space but just did the .del marking and consequently failed to do a recording or a cutting action due to out of disk space which would have succeeded if it would have actually deleted the .del files. But that was some time ago (I haven't had disk space issues lately) and I don't know which version it was back then. But it was not that long ago, I believe the issue still persists if this area of functionality hasn't changed lately. So in some cases it should actually free the disk space more proactively.
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