<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P><B>From: </B>"MS" <ms2@hipcat2.plus.com><BR><B>To: </B>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR><B>Sent: </B>Friday, September 20, 2013 3:00:39 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [mythtv-users] External drive for recordings<BR><BR>On 19/09/13 13:40, Stephen Worthington wrote:<BR>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:21:32 +0100, you wrote:<BR>><BR>>> On 19/09/13 10:09, Stephen Worthington wrote:<BR>>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:38:32 +0100, you wrote:<BR>>>><BR>>>>> Folks:<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> I have been unable to persuade Myth to record to an external USB hard<BR>>>>> disc. For instance -<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> /media/gt/HD2012/mythtv/recordings = 775 mythtv:mythtv<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Set this in the Back End Default Directories and it is ignored even<BR>>>>> though mounted and accessible by other means.<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> I have succeeded previously so I must be missing something basic.<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Myth 1.026 under Ubuntu 13.04 running on a Revo.<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Any thoughts? Many thanks.<BR><BR>snip<BR><BR>> or two, depending on various factors. If you go to Information Center<BR>>> System Status > AutoExpire List you may see files marked as<BR>> (Deleted) at the top of that list. Those are waiting to be deleted<BR>> when the space is needed or they expire their waiting time. You can<BR>> get them to be actually deleted from there using the D key, but that<BR>> only puts them onto the queue to be actually deleted in a short while.<BR>> Only after the file has actually been deleted will the matching<BR>> database entries be deleted.<BR><BR><BR>Thanks for your comments Stephen, I am making no progress on this <BR>problem so have put it back on the shelf for now - Bah!<BR><BR>GT<BR><BR></P>
<P>Do you have the USB drive mounted correctly? Ubuntu will automatically mount a USB drive under /media but it is only accessible to the user currently logged on to the GUI. The "mythtv" user that runs the backend will not see it. You should unmount it from /media and let root mount the drive via an entry that you will have to add to /etc/fstab.</P>
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