[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings because of ".xsession-errors" file

[Thomas Mashos]

Where are you going to put that warning
On Oct 15, 2012 3:58 AM, "Joseph Fry" <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> > On 10/13/2012 01:27 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>> >>
>> >> OUCH.... Someone ought to add a few entries in the various wiki's and
>> >> readme's that your media should be stored on it's own partition(s)...
>> >
>> >
>> > I think what you mean "Someone ought to figure out a way to get users to
>> > find/notice/read the entries in the various wikis and readmes that your
>> > media should be stored on its own partition(s)."  :)
>>
>> Or myth distros could enforce setting up the data on a different
>> partition so that 1st time users aren't caught in a trap. There is
>> enough to learn when first installing mythtv without needing to second
>> guess a supposedly specialist distro's partitioning scheme (or lack of
>> scheme).
>>
>> /var/lib/mythtv may be the default location for the recordings
>> directory because of some desire to go with filesystem purity, but it
>> is difficult to set as a separate partition on installation, and
>> non-intuitive, particularly if you haven't set up mythtv before and
>> have got lost in the wiki.
>>
>>
> Perhaps a simple check and warn in the backend status / sys info pages
> would work to save some users... If it detects that any of the recordings
> are being written to the same drive as /, /var, /tmp etc.... then it spits
> out a big warning?
>
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