[mythtv-users] additional drive

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 14:57:28 UTC 2014


On Sep 11, 2014 10:30 AM, "jedi" <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:58:09PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> > 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:
>
> [deletia]
>
> > >>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.
>
> ...no it's not. Just mount the new drive. You can do this manually.
There's
> no need to go through the bother of an entire reboot to get this
implemented.
>
>    You can also reconfigure & restart nfs or samba without a reboot.
>
> [deletia]
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I'm forced to agree, as I did see the new drive overmount the original when
they were both /media/storage, without a reboot and that is what broke the
link to mythtv, the new drive had no directory at that time.
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