[mythtv-users] additional drive

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>>
> I still need a little more clarification. Currently recordings etal go to
> /media/storage/mythtv due to a link my son installed last year: lrwxrwxrwx
> 1 root root 21 Aug 26 10:41 /var/lib/mythtv -> /media/storage/mythtv, is it
> more standard to move the /var/lib/mythtv directory to the drive
> /media/storage? If that is the case, then how would I move the same
> directory to two drives?  When I try to add another path to storage
> directories I'm told that the directory can't be written to(or some such)
> and do I want to go back and fix this? So I delete the recent change. I've
> tried "/media/storage2/mythtv" and "/media/storage2/mythtv/recordings"
>  same result, they look writeable to me:
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2
> total 20
> drwx------ 2 root   root 16384 Aug 27 12:54 lost+found
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mythtv root  4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2/mythtv
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv root 4096 Sep 11 08:33 recordings
>
> What can I do to get to a standard setup using the two 1Tb drives for
> recordings etal?
> Also with Precise, recordings went into a recordings directory in the
> mythtv dir. now in Trusty they go into the mythtv dir along side the
> recordings, videos, fan art, etcetera dir's, is that because of the
> follwoing ownership?: drwxrwxr-x 15 ntp  mythtv  4096 Sep 11 07:31 mythtv
>

Nevermind, I chown'd .mythtv /media/storage2/mythtv/recordings , added it
to SD's and all is well. Thanks again to all contributors!    Daryl
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