[mythtv-users] Question about /storage

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Tue Jan 19 07:09:31 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Kenni Lund wrote:
> 2010/1/18 Phusion <phusion2k at gmail.com>:
> > I was wondering if after installing MythTV 0.22.2 under the setup for
> > storage directories I could set it to another directory like /data
> > instead of /storage. If so do I need to copy the directories that
> > already seem to be under /storage and also change ownership? Is there
> > anything else I need to do to change it to /data for example.
> 
> No, you don't need to do anything else. If you copy your current
> directories and files with the cp command with the -a (archive)
> argument, all files and directories will keep their current permission
> and ownership, eg:
> cp -a /storage/* /data/
Better is to use "rsync -auHv"
It will sync all the files and keep it all the permissions, soft links, hard 
links, ...
And you can restart if something went wrong.


Stef


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