[mythtv-users] Putting the OS and database on a separate spindle on mythbuntu

[Johnny Walker]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>
>>> Why bother? Why not just update your storage directory to
>>> /usr/local/storage
>>> in mythtv-setup? Saves all the farting around copying files and
>>> generating
>>> symlinks...
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mike Perkins
>>
>> because I wanted the files moved.
>>
>> I wasn't aware changing the storage directory would cause the files to
>> be moved. Is that the case? Let me know and I'll go patch in some
>> helpful text to let the next idiot know that on the storage screens.
>>
> ? I don't understand your comment. At all. Mythtv stores files in the
> directories specified in the "storage directories" menu in mythtv-setup for
> every back end.
>
> What I don't understand is why you'd want to laboriously copy your files to
> another directory, and then symlink them back to the original directory just
> so that myth can find them, when you could just ask myth to store them in
> the other directory in the first place.
>

See my original post - I added a second drive - it wasn't there in the
1st place.

I see your point though - Measure twice and cut once - If I'd have
planned it all out (which I'm not prone to) I would have planned it
this way to begin with. The last time I ran MythTv prior to getting
starting again about 6 months ago was in the days of SD recordings. I
was able to run everything all on 1 drive and it was pretty snappy.
Now with HD recordings it seems the drive contention is a little more
of a concern.

Plus I'm a Systems Admin by trade. Moving content to larger mount
point and sym-linking it back is second nature for me.

-Johnny