Mark Crutch wrote:
A few days ago there was a thread about freeing up some storage space temporarily. One of the best suggestions I saw was to copy the larger files to a second hard drive and set up a symlink to them.
Unfortunately I can't do that, as I run MythTV on a SFF PC which doesn't have space for a second drive. However, I wondered about doing the following:-
1) Copy selected files to CD-R/W or DVD-R/W 2) Zero the corresponding files on the hard drive 3) Use the extra space over Christmas 4) When there is sufficient space again, copy the files back, replacing the zeroed versions
Would this work? Will Myth ignore the fact that the files have changed, or will it try to adjust the database accordingly? And if it does adjust things, will it readjust them correctly when the full-size files are put back?
Note that my SFF PC is not very powerful (a Mini-itx board), so I don't want to go down the route of transcoding in order to move the files to DVD permanently.
Mark ###########################################
Myth just returns immediately when you try to play the file.
When you put the files back again it's happy.
David PS if you have another PC you can simply copy them over the network too. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
