<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 2:12 AM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:07:45 +0530, you wrote:<br>
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>On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:28 Richard Shaw <<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com" target="_blank">hobbes1069@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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>> Anyone see other options?<br>
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>Or create symbolic links in /var on the new SSD pointing to the correct<br>
>directories on the old HD mounted under /mnt, e.g.:<br>
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>cd /var<br>
>sudo ln - s /mnt/oldhd/pictures .<br>
>sudo ln - s /mnt/oldhd/mythvideos .<br>
>sudo ln - s /mnt/oldhd/mythmusic .<br>
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>Cheers, Ian<br>
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Actually, there is no need to do anything so complicated. All those<br>
directories can simply be changed in the MythTV settings. And those<br>
settings are now out of date, as all of them can also be set up as<br>
storage groups now. So you should probably just go into mythtv-setup<br>
> Storage Groups and add the groups you need. Note that storage<br>
groups are referenced from the backend - the data is sent to<br>
mythfrontend from mythbackend, and mythbackend accesses the<br>
directories. The old settings are used by mythfrontend to directly<br>
access the directories, so if you are running separate frontends, you<br>
need to have network paths to access the data if it is actually stored<br>
on the backend box.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, my question is more about the file system hierarchy than mythtv settings. I am using Storage Groups but I'd like to stay within the defaults of the RPM Fusion package (which I help maintain) if possible. </div><div><br></div><div>It could be that it's wildly out of date but it's also very difficult to migrate major changes automagically for users so thing tend to stay the way they're established. </div><div><br></div><div>I may need to do a "fresh" install in a VM so I can see how things default. My combined FE/BE installation is >10 years old at this point. </div><div><br></div><div>The problem is there is not a single "root" folder for mythtv the way it's currently packaged. It could have been:</div><div><br></div><div>/var/lib/mythtv/{pictures,mythmusic,mythvideos,recordings} </div><div><br></div><div>Which would have given me a single directory to tie things in but instead it's:</div><div><br></div><div>/var/lib/{pictures,mythmusic,mythvideos,recordings} </div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Plus a bunch of other stuff in /var/lib...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">So it looks like the simplest solution if I don't want to move things around is my original idea.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_quote">Richard</div></div>