[mythtv-users] Adding extra storage to BE

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 22:41:02 UTC 2012


> mount the new disk in some place like /the/new/disk and add a directory
> for the standard storage group as /the/new/disk/recordings owned and
> writeable by mythtv:mythtv (or whoever your backend runs as)
> Then add that directory to your storage group.
>

I recommend creating the folder inside the new disk as well. The
reason for this is if the mount for the storage failed for some reason
in the future myth will not try writing to your root filesystem since
the recordings folder you created will not exist when the drive was
not mounted.

John


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