[mythtv-users] MythTV storage groups can't see 2nd hard drive

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/05/2012 08:52 AM, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:25 AM, JCF Junkmail wrote:
>
>> I have stumbled upon either a mythtv-ubuntu bug or evidence I'm still a
>> noob :-) , I'm not sure.  Either way, I cannot go any further without
>> asking for your help as I have spent weeks trying to figure this out,
>> troubleshooting and searching for similar problems posted on the forums,
>> with no success so far.
>>
>> What I am trying to achieve is having mythtv directories in a second hard
>> drive, separate from the one with the operative system. The problem is that
>> when I try to change the default storage group that comes with the
>> installation for one subfolder in my 2nd HD, mythTV can't write to it.
>>
>> Here is my setup:
>> Ubuntu 11.10 system with 2 internal 1Tb HD with several partitions.
>> MythTV (single backend/frontend) installed from repository
>> ppa:mythbuntu/0.25, using this command: sudo apt-get install mythtv.
>> A partition in my second drive mounted to the filesystem at /content.  It
>> is what I would considered properly mounted, as shown here from the fstab
>> file:
>>     #<UUID>                           <mount point>   <type>
>>   <options>       <dump>   <pass>
>>     UUID=23af0479-7f92-4691-a3fc-5ebbc1ba888f /content        ext4
>>   defaults        0       2
>>
>> The UUID refers to a logical partition in my b drive, sdb6, as shown here:
>>     @:  blkid -U 23af0479-7f92-4691-a3fc-5ebbc1ba888f
>>     /dev/sdb6
>>
>> In /content, I have created a subfolder named "mythmedia" and set up
>> permission for MythTV to access it, as shown here:
>>     @:  /content$ ls -l | grep mythmedia
>>     drwxrwxr-x  2 mythtv mythtv        4096 2012-06-04 17:19 mythmedia
>>
>> MythTV would work fine when using the default storage group
>> "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/".  However, when I attempt to change it from
>> the backend setup to "/content/mythmedia/" nothing gets recorded.  The
>> directory /content and all its subfolders work fine for all other purposes
>> (Nautilus, Samba, etc.), but for some reason MythTV doesn't want to use it
>> (i.e. no Tuner woul record to it).
>>
>> It is also odd that when I exit out of the backend setup, it doesn't give
>> me the message about the directory not exiting, so presumably, the backend
>> is able to see the folder is there.  However, when accessing the
>> information at (breadcrumbs) MythTV frontend>  Information Center>  System
>> Status>  Machine status>, it shows only the space available in my main hard
>> drive (the one with /boot, /, /home and swap), ignoring the larger drive
>> mounted at /content.
>>
>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
> What are the permissions on /content? It would need to have at least R-X
> for group and everyone.

And what does the backend log say when you try to record to the other 
file system?

Mike