On Montag, 20. April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: > vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
