[mythtv-users] failing drive

[Daryl McDonald]

Thanks Stephen, I only asked because the first attempt to clone the drive
with gparted failed, but after using e2fsck on it I was able to move the
files to the acceptable drive, but still good to know as I endeavour to get
all the possible milage out of these drives.   Daryl

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:03 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:23:12 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Greetings Mythizens, is there a way to block new recordings to a
> particular
> >drive, and allow access to previous recordings? Deleting from storage
> >groups has made old recs un available.
>
> Create a new storage group with any name you like other than the
> standard names.  I would suggest in this case using "BadDrives". Then
> put the partition on the bad drive in the new storage group.  Unless
> you create a recording rule that tells mythbackend to record to the
> new storage group, it will only use it to show existing recordings.
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