<br>On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 11/03/2008 04:55 PM, Craig Fry wrote:<br>
> Over the weekend I added new drives to my mythbox and moved recordings from<br>
> my lvm to the new drives. My default recording group has 4 directories in<br>
> it, each on a different drive and I removed the lvm entirely. Now I cannot<br>
> delete recordings from the front end or mythweb. It won't even auto<br>
> expire. An example message:<br>
><br>
> File /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg for chanid 1062 at Sat Oct 25 08:00:00<br>
> 2008 could not be deleted.<br>
><br>
> Permissions:<br>
><br>
> ls -al /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg<br>
><br>
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv 1255804928 2008-10-25 08:25<br>
> /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg<br>
><br>
> Database shows the storage group as Default. Mythbackend is running under<br>
> mythtv as it always has been.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Deleting a file on *nix does /not/ require write permission to the<br>
file. It requires write permission to the /directory/ containing the file.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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</blockquote><div></div><div>Just figured it out but that is exactly what was wrong. Thanks for the help. </div>