[mythtv-users] removable storage questions

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed May 27 14:33:40 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:28 AM, James Miller
<gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Mike wrote:
>
>> and specify that directory in your storage group.  If
>> /mythtv/filesystem1 is not mounted, the "mount point directory" on the
>> parent filesystem, /mythtv/filesystem1, still exists, but
>> /mythtv/filesystem1/recordings does not.  Therefore, Myth will skip that
>> filesystem/directory when deciding where to record.
>
> I see. Thanks for that suggestion--I think I get how this works. So, say
> I've got 3 drives, one that is 40gb, one that is 60gb, and at 100gb. I'd
> create the mount point for those, say, at /media/long-term. Then, on each
> drive, I'd create a folder that's intended to contain all files on the
> drive--folders with names maybe something like 40gb-recordings,
> 60gb-recordings, and 100gb-recordings, respectively. Each of those
> directories would then be added as storage groups, if I've understood
> correctly. Then, I could transfer over recordings to each as desired and the
> system would be able to play them whenever the drive was mounted. But the
> system would not try to record to those folders whenever the drive was
> offline, since the folder would not exist. Sounds like the best approach for
> my purposes so far.
>

You would have one mount point for each drive.

> Btw, what would be the best fs to put on these intermittently-present drives
> that I intend to use for long-term storage?
>
I do not know. I use ext4 and xfs mostly.

John


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