<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Jonno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonnojohnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonnojohnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Never mind. I just changed the mount point to /var/lib/mythtv/recordings and it's working ok. Curious what the problem was though.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>You really should change the mount point to /var/lib/mythtv and once mounted, create a /recordings directory on the drive.</div><div><br></div><div>This way, if the drive goes offline, there is no /var/lib/mythtv/recordings directory for mythtv to write to, causing mythtv to use a different drive, or fail recordings altogether... which is a good thing.</div><div><br></div><div>If you leave it as you have it configured, and the drive goes offline or fails to mount, your recordings will go to the wrong drive, potentially filling the drive and causing all kinds of nasty system issues. Additionally, recordings that occur while the drive is offline, will not be accessible when it is mounted again.</div><div><br></div><div>Put another way, the recommendation is NOT to write to the mount point, but to a directory on the drive mounted there.</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Actually, rather than mounting at /var/lib/mythtv... you should create a mount point there... like /var/lib/mythtv/disk1. Then once you mount the drive create /var/lib/mythtv/disk1/recordings.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I forgot that /var/lib/mythtv is used for other things by default (I don't use that directory in my setup) and you may not want that all on a separate file system.</div></div>