[mythtv-users] Near the end of Jarod HOWTO with partition problem

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Maarten van den Berg wrote:

>On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:25, Matthew Bair wrote:
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>>All,
>>
>>[sorry, mistakenly sent last email unfinished.]
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>>This isn't Mythtv-related, but has everything to do with my being a
>>Linux newbie...at least as far as fdisk, partitions, and LVM go.  I
>>followed Jarod's HOWTO with success up till I try to run the mtyhbackend
>>and it fails due to...my /video mount is not present!
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>>
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>Here ya go... manual mount:
>	mount  /dev/hda5  /var/video
>You can verify with the command df if it did what it supposed to.
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>

/hda5 is a LVM partition, you can't just mount it.

Assuming you've created a physical and logical volume you want to "mount 
/dev<PHYSICAL VOLUME NAME>/<LOGICAL VOLUME NAME> /video".

You've probably forgotten to create an entry in your fstab.