[mythtv-users] additional drive

[Mike Perkins]

On 10/09/14 22:46, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi Daryl,
>>
>> Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 11:30:19 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Mythizens, I decided to add the second Tb for additional
>>> recording space. so I added the UUID to /etc/fstab , mounted it and
>>> listed it, but mythFE doesn't see it:
>>
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
>>
>>> (gedit:3949): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed:
>>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
>>> org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo mount -a
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo mount -l
>>> /dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
>>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>> none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
>>> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
>>> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
>>> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
>>> udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
>>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
>>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
>>> none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
>>> none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>>> none on /run/user type tmpfs
>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
>>> none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
>>> /dev/sdc3 on /media/storage type ext4 (rw)
>>> systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup
>>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
>>> gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=daryl)
>>> gvfsd-fuse on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>>> /dev/sdb1 on /media/storage type ext4 (rw)
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>
>>> 1) Is it wrong to use "/media/storage" as the mount point for both Tb
>> drives?
>>> 2) Or do I need to reset something in the FE set-up?
>>> 3) Should I be concerned about the warning after using "gksudo gedit"?
>>
>>> TIA   Daryl
>>
>> You can not mount two volumes on the same mountpoint. Or actually you
>> can, but only the last mounted will be visible.
>> You have to add a second directory, for instance /media/storage2 and
>> mount the second volume there.
>> In mythtv-setup you add the second mountpoint to the same storage
>> group as where you have /media/storage. Myth will then spread new
>> files over the two volumes. This depending on your settings.
>>
>
>
> Hoi Hika, I'm unclear on adding the second mount point. I stop the back-end
> and go to storage directories and don't know what to so from there. I did
> change the fstab as you suggested to /media/storage2
>
Did you reboot after changing the fstab? This is essential.

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Mike Perkins