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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Thu 09-02-2012 14:19<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] Relocating recordings storage directory<br /><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>; <br />On 02/09/2012 06:37 AM, Andre wrote:<br />><br />> On 9 Feb 2012, at 06:57, Mailing Lists wrote:<br />><br />>> HI,<br />>><br />>> I currently have all of my recordings stored in a directory called /myth/tv, I would like to be able to relocate them to another folder - /media/myth/tv.<br />><br />> You can just remount the drive in /media or just mv the files if it's one filesystem, then change the storage directory path in mythtv-setup and everything will be found and recorded as before. I have done this many times when re-organising multiple disks.<br /><br />You might consider choosing a different mount point than /media. In the latest <br />openSUSE version, the file system was changed to mount /media in tmpfs. All the <br />fstab entries for /media were thus broken. I'm not sure if other distros will <br />choose that approach, but calling it something like /video avoids the problem.<br /><br />Larry<br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br /></blockquote><p>Unfortunately I don't have much choice because the Humax box that I'm mounting the myth folder on will ONLY let me mount a volume under /media and the symlinks for mythlinked recordings will only work on the Humax box if they're poining to the same source directory.</p><p> </p><p>ie. /media/myth/Recordings/progname.mpg -> /media/myth/tv/100120120121002200.mpg will work only if /medi/myth/tv exists on the Humax box, otherwise the links are broken.</p><p> </p><p>I can only hope that Ubuntu doesn't break /media in the same way.</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave.<br /> </p>
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