[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

Chris Simmons chris at simmons.titandsl.co.uk
Thu Jan 24 20:49:02 UTC 2013


On 24/01/2013 20:07, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>
>     I am considering adding a 2TB WD disk to my system (WD2002FAEX).
>
>     What, if any, problems might I run into?
>
>
> If you have a port free, I can't imagine any problems. Just install 
> it, mount it somewhere, create a "recordings" directory on it, then 
> add the path to that directory to your recordings storage group.

...and make sure the user running mythbackend can write to the drive!  I 
just threw a new drive in and forgot this step and was wondering why I 
had zero byte recordings for a while (runs as mythtv on fedora nowadays 
rather than root).

Chris.
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