[mythtv-users] two small Q's

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 23:27:34 UTC 2014


On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Sunday, September 14, 2014, 12:11:28 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>
>
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> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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> >
>  >> On 14 Sep 2014, at 2:21 am, "Daryl McDonald" <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Greetings Mythizens, I'v added a partition of my 250 Gb drive to SD's,
> migrated a few directories into it and provided new paths the the BE setup
> storage directories. When I look at it, I'm curious about two small things:
>  >>
>  >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media
>  >> total 12
>  >> drwxr-xr-x+ 4 root root 4096 Sep 13 12:28 daryl   << Why the "+"?
>  >> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Sep 11 08:18 storage
>  >> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Sep 11 08:14 storage2
> >
> >  /media/storage/ and /media/storage2/ are both owned by root:root not
> mythtv:mythtv.
>
> > agreed, but fully functional,would you recommend chown-ing them?
>
> No need unless you want mythtv being able to create files in the
> directory itself. Access to underlying directories is garanteed by the
> World rx rights.
> >
>  >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/daryl
>  >> total 8
>  >> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 08:01
> 3769e2e8-adde-456c-86e4-0402be737ef6
>  >> Does the UUID show here because it is a partition, not a drive?  <<<
>  >> drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 13 10:27 mythxtra
>  >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage
>  >> total 20
>  >> drwx------ 2 root root   16384 Jun 11  2013 lost+found
>  >> drwxrwxr-x 8 ntp  mythtv  4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv
> >
> >  Looks like /media/storage/mythtv/ is still owned by user ntp not mythtv.
>
> > there is one file and one directory in there with the ntp while the
> > rest have mythtv, no problem thus far?
>
> Cosmetically speaking I would chown the mythtv directories to mythtv
> >
>  >> 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
> >
> >  /media/storage2/mythtv/ group ownership is root not mythtv.
>
> > this being the drive that has most available space is getting a
> > recording as I type, doesn't seem to be broken?
>
> The access through the group is so that you can grant users access by
> making them member of the mythtv group. Again cosmetically speaking I
> would change the group to mythtv.
>
> >
>  >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/daryl/mythxtra
>  >> total 20
>  >> drwx------ 2 root   root   16384 Sep 13 10:14 lost+found
>  >> drwxrwxr-x 9 mythtv mythtv  4096 Sep 13 10:36 mythtv
>  >> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>  >>
>  >> See questions inserted with <'s. Everything else looks good to me,
> have I missed anything?   TIA   Daryl
>  >>
> >
> >> _______________________________________________
>
>
> > Thanks for the replies and critiques, I'm trying to find a balance
> > where I do what is necessary, instead of everything possible, which
> > has bitten my backside in the past.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
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OK cosmetically correct now:

 daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root   16384 Jun 11  2013 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 8 ntp  mythtv  4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo chown mythtv /media/storage/mythtv
[sudo] password for daryl:
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage
total 20
drwx------ 2 root   root   16384 Jun 11  2013 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 8 mythtv mythtv  4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv
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:~$ sudo chown .mythtv /media/storage2/mythtv
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 mythtv  4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

Grazie!
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