[mythtv-users] Recordings "cold not be deleted"

Craig Fry craigfry at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 03:31:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/03/2008 04:55 PM, Craig Fry wrote:
> > Over the weekend I added new drives to my mythbox and moved recordings
> from
> > my lvm to the new drives.  My default recording group has 4 directories
> in
> > it, each on a different drive and I removed the lvm entirely.  Now I
> cannot
> > delete recordings from the front end or mythweb.  It won't even auto
> > expire.  An example message:
> >
> > File /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg for chanid 1062 at Sat Oct 25
> 08:00:00
> > 2008 could not be deleted.
> >
> > Permissions:
> >
> > ls -al /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg
> >
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv 1255804928 2008-10-25 08:25
> > /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg
> >
> > Database shows the storage group as Default.  Mythbackend is running
> under
> > mythtv as it always has been.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Deleting a file on *nix does /not/ require write permission to the
> file.  It requires write permission to the /directory/ containing the file.
>
> Mike
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Just figured it out but that is exactly what was wrong.  Thanks for the
help.
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