<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hoi Mark,<br>
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Sunday, September 14, 2014, 2:21:20 AM, you wrote:<br>
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> On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:57 am, "Daryl McDonald" <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hoi Daryl,<br>
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> Sunday, September 14, 2014, 12:11:28 AM, you wrote:<br>
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>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> On 14 Sep 2014, at 2:21 am, "Daryl McDonald" <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> 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:<br>
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>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media<br>
>>> total 12<br>
>>> drwxr-xr-x+ 4 root root 4096 Sep 13 12:28 daryl << Why the "+"?<br>
>>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 08:18 storage<br>
>>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 08:14 storage2<br>
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>> /media/storage/ and /media/storage2/ are both owned by root:root not mythtv:mythtv.<br>
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>> agreed, but fully functional,would you recommend chown-ing them?<br>
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> No need unless you want mythtv being able to create files in the<br>
> directory itself. Access to underlying directories is garanteed by the<br>
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>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/daryl<br>
>>> total 8<br>
>>> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 08:01 3769e2e8-adde-456c-86e4-0402be737ef6<br>
>>> Does the UUID show here because it is a partition, not a drive? <<<<br>
>>> drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 13 10:27 mythxtra<br>
>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage<br>
>>> total 20<br>
>>> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 11 2013 lost+found<br>
>>> drwxrwxr-x 8 ntp mythtv 4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv<br>
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>> Looks like /media/storage/mythtv/ is still owned by user ntp not mythtv.<br>
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>> there is one file and one directory in there with the ntp while the<br>
>> rest have mythtv, no problem thus far?<br>
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> Cosmetically speaking I would chown the mythtv directories to mythtv<br>
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>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2<br>
>>> total 20<br>
>>> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 27 12:54 lost+found<br>
>>> drwxrwxr-x 3 mythtv root 4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv<br>
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>> /media/storage2/mythtv/ group ownership is root not mythtv.<br>
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>> this being the drive that has most available space is getting a<br>
>> recording as I type, doesn't seem to be broken?<br>
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> The access through the group is so that you can grant users access by<br>
> making them member of the mythtv group. Again cosmetically speaking I<br>
> would change the group to mythtv.<br>
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>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/daryl/mythxtra<br>
>>> total 20<br>
>>> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 13 10:14 lost+found<br>
>>> drwxrwxr-x 9 mythtv mythtv 4096 Sep 13 10:36 mythtv<br>
>>> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
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>>> See questions inserted with <'s. Everything else looks good to me, have I missed anything? TIA Daryl<br>
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>> Thanks for the replies and critiques, I'm trying to find a balance<br>
>> where I do what is necessary, instead of everything possible, which<br>
>> has bitten my backside in the past.<br>
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> Tot mails,<br>
> Hika mailto:<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a><br>
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> OK cosmetically correct now:<br>
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> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage<br>
> total 20<br>
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 11 2013 lost+found<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 8 ntp mythtv 4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo chown mythtv /media/storage/mythtv<br>
> [sudo] password for daryl:<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage<br>
> total 20<br>
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 11 2013 lost+found<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 8 mythtv mythtv 4096 Sep 13 10:42 mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2<br>
> total 20<br>
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 27 12:54 lost+found<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mythtv root 4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo chown .mythtv /media/storage2/mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2<br>
> total 20<br>
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 27 12:54 lost+found<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mythtv mythtv 4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
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> Grazie!<br>
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</div></div><span class="">> In my opinion it is a bit more important than cosmetics, even if it<br>
> appears to be working fine as it is. There might be issues you<br>
> haven't picked up on yet or future problems.<br>
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> It might be just me but one of the first things I learnt with<br>
> Ubuntu (noting I am a ubuntu newbie) is that permissions are king -<br>
> if something is not working it is pretty much the first thing I check.<br>
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> If changing the user:group ownership to mythtv causes a problem in<br>
> my mind that is a good thing because it lets you fix whatever the<br>
> real cause is before it causes something more severe or problematic to occur.<br>
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</span>I agree, but mostly in the sense that consistency prevents a lot off<br>
problems and if they occur they are easier to fix.<br>
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Tot mails,<br>
Hika mailto:<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a><br>
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"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven<br>
Zonder leven is er geen hoop<br>
Het eeuwige dilemma<br>
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"<br>
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De lerende Mens<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div>Much obliged to you both!</div></div>