[mythtv-users] Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 disasters - please help; (

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 01:07:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Lindsay Mathieson
<lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:13:27 am Nick Rout wrote:
>> mythbunted unfortunately (1) historically does not create any more
>> partitions than / by default (2) keeps myth stuff under
>> /var/lib/mythtv, /var/lib/mythdvd and /var/lib/mytharchive (and
>> possibly more). (3) in later versions when it does set up a separate
>> partition for media mounts it at /var/lib (4) therefore if you keep
>> that partition you are keeping more than just your myth media files,
>> you also keep a whole bunch of other directories.* (5) resulting in a
>> bit of a mess.
>
>
> Its easy enough to change. All my stuff lives under /pvr

That is fiddling that should not be necessary for an "appliance"


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