[mythtv-users] Storage group Question for Mike Dean..

[Greg]

On 01/15/2013 12:43 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/14/2013 04:12 PM, Greg wrote:
>>  Mike, or any one else who can shed some light on this...
>>    I have under the Default storage Group the paths to the disks I use
>> to store recordings.
>> /video2/storage/recordings/
>> /video3/storage/recordings/
>> /video6/storage/recordings/
>>
>> video2-6 are separate drives.. The permissions are set to read and
>> write for the user that runs Mythtv... The only drive that is getting
>> recorded to is /video6/storage/recordings/... This used to work for
>> me,but after reading the current thread on storage groups,I noticed
>> all but one storage group is empty...
>>
>> Would you be able to steer me in the right direction?
>
> First, according to the above, you've mentioned only one Storage Group,
> called Default.  /video{2,3,6}/storage/recordings are directories, not
> Storage Groups.  (Just making sure we're clear on terminology.)
>
> So, your Storage Group is not empty.  You may have 2 empty
> directories--which is perfectly reasonable, and may be exactly what
> you're telling MythTV to do.  To find out, we'd need more information.
> Specifically, I'd need information about the file systems, such as the
> output of df -k
>
> If, for example, /video2 is a file system on a 2TB HDD and /video3 and
> /video6 are smaller file systems (say, on 500GB HDDs), and you have more
> space available on /video2 than is available on either of the smaller
> file systems, MythTV would choose to write to the /video2 file system
> with the Balanced Free Space Storage Group Disk Scheduler.
>
> You should also check permissions, as Thomas mentioned, but
> specifically, you'd need to check permissions of the directories leading
> up to the final.  If MythTV doesn't have access to one of the
> lower-level directories, it may not be able to see the recordings
> subdirectory, so it won't use it.  If, however, the permissions were
> correct, except for the recordings subdirectory, MythTV would attempt to
> use it, then you'd get failures when trying to write the recordings, so
> you'd have "missing" recordings.  So, check:
>
> ls -ld /video{2,3,6}{,/storage{,/recordings}}
>
> Mike
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First thanks for your time: I think my confusion is in thinking that all 
recording storage groups were supposed to be under Default...
Here is the info you requested..
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7        57666820  38760492  15977024  71% /
udev              2014960         4   2014956   1% /dev
tmpfs              809664      2324    807340   1% /run
none                 5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              2024152       172   2023980   1% /run/shm
none               102400        68    102332   1% /run/user
/dev/sda5        94050224   4027676  85245076   5% /video5
/dev/sda1          140805    105494     28041  80% /boot
/dev/sdd1      1442145340 978161808 390726728  72% /video1
/dev/sdc1       961432072 667801396 244792676  74% /video2
/dev/sde1       961431880 636842280 275751612  70% /video3
/dev/sdb1       961431880 191096156 721497736  21% /video4
/dev/sdf1      1922859824 953418304 871765848  53% /video6
/dev/sr1         48876416  48876416         0 100% /media/greg/PIRATES1
/dev/sr0          7052386   7052386         0 100% 
/media/greg/CSI_MIAMI_S9_D4
greg at TVserver:~$
drwxrwxrwx  8 greg greg    4096 Jan 14 16:42 /video2
drwxrwxrwx  3 greg mythtv  4096 Jun  3  2012 /video2/storage
drwxrwxrwx  2 greg mythtv  4096 Jan 14 16:42 /video2/storage/recordings
drwxrwxrwx  8 greg greg    4096 Nov  8 19:39 /video3
drwxrwxrwx  3 greg mythtv  4096 Nov  8 19:40 /video3/storage
drwxrwxrwx  2 greg mythtv 20480 Jan 14 15:52 /video3/storage/recordings
drwxrwxrwx 13 greg greg    4096 Jan 14 15:09 /video6
drwxrwxrwx  3 greg mythtv  4096 Mar 18  2012 /video6/storage
drwxrwxrwx  2 greg mythtv 32768 Jan 15 00:56 /vi

  As you can see I elevated all the permission to 777 trying to get this 
to work...
Do you see anything glaring that I missed?

Thanks