<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim_32766@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jim_32766@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I thought I was doing something smart but it sounds like I might not
be using best practices. If I can use the recording group entries in
the backend to point to /home/mythtv/recordings . . . and some
future update/upgrade won't change it back to "factory default",
thus breaking my setup . . . that would solve my problem nicely. I
am fairly new to Linux and MythTV and really like both. I appreciate
all the help from those of you with more knowledge/experience.
Thanks.</blockquote></div><br>I believe that's what Storage Groups are for - to allow you to specify where to store recordings. Are you moving them because your /home is much larger than your /var ?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Here are three options:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">#1 - Storage Groups, I think. I've never used them, so I'm not 100% sure if that is what they do.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">#2 - Mount a different filesystem. A new drive, or a partition on another drive, format it (mkfs /dev/sdb1 or similar), move EVERYTHING under /var/lib/mythtv to it and then mount it by putting something like this in fstab:</div><div class="gmail_extra">/dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv ext4 defaults 1 1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(lots of options here, xfs filesystem, Logical Volumes, etc. )</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">#3 - if you're really stuck, us a bind mount. This allows you to mount a directory from one place so it looks like it's another place. make sure /var/lib/mythtv/recordings is empty, and in /etc/fstab:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/home/mythtv/recordings /var/lib/mythtv/recordings none defaults, bind 1 1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- <br>Justin B. Alcorn<br>PGP Fingerprint A36D D691 C5B0 BE15 5A2A AF49 AA1C 372C</div></div>
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