[mythtv-users] Adding new 1 Terabyte Drive and Moving existing Recordings

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 14:44:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Lindsay Mathieson <
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm adding a 1000GB drive to my existing 500GB.
>
> Heh - this gets asked a lot :) However I'd just like to confirm I've got
> the
> procedure right.
>
> 1.  The new drive will be formatted with XFS as my understanding is that
> XFS
> is much better and quicker at handling large files - deletes no longer clog
> up
> the system and I can turn slow deletes off.
>
> 2.  Also I will be moving all my existing recordings off the 500GB to the
> 1000GB drive. I believe I can just move the files and update the storage
> group
> (Default) to point to the new drive. No need to update the DB apart from
> that.


Or better yet, move everything to the new drive, mount the new drive where
the old drive was mounted in your filesystem, then remount the old drive in
a new place for videos.  Don't have to change anything for Storage Groups.

Kevin
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