[mythtv-users] Changing partition label
stan
stanlist at cox.net
Sat Oct 7 22:33:45 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:15 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Changing partition label
>
> On 04/10/06, stan <stanlist at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > To verify, are you saying it's safe to just change the
> /etc/fstab entry
> >
> > From
> > LABEL=/video /video ext3 defaults 1 2
> > To
> > LABEL=/video /data ext3 defaults 1 2
> >
>
> Unmount /dev/hdc1 before changing anything. Then you can create the
> new mount point, update your /etc/fstab file, and update the partition
> label. Then mount the drive again with
>
> # mount /data
>
> Then create your recordings, videos, and music directories under /data
> and change the MythTV pointers. All data under /data will then be
> stored on /dev/hda1.
>
> > But, that still begs the question of how to change the
> /video partition name
> > as well. Is this a risky procedure at this point. Is the
> partition name
> > /video already known in several other places?
>
> Use the e2label command as you mentioned in your original post to
> change the label. Changing the partition name when the partition is
> unmounted should not affect anything. Problems are really only to be
> expected if you change the partition label without updating /etc/fstab
> to reflect the change (and fstab is referencing partitions by label
> and not be device name) - as mount will not be able to find the
> partition.
>
> Nick
>
Thanks Nick. This basically worked.
If anyone tries this, though, remember to first mkdir for the new mount
point (e.g. mkdir /data1 in my case).
Also, I found it easier to leave the old /video as a local directory under /
until I reconfigured mythtvsetup to point to /data1/recordings.
--stan
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