[mythtv-users] MythTV storage groups can't see 2nd hard drive

David Brieck Jr. dbrieck at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 12:52:22 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:25 AM, JCF Junkmail <jcf_junkmail at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have stumbled upon either a mythtv-ubuntu bug or evidence I'm still a
> noob :-) , I'm not sure.  Either way, I cannot go any further without
> asking for your help as I have spent weeks trying to figure this out,
> troubleshooting and searching for similar problems posted on the forums,
> with no success so far.
>
> What I am trying to achieve is having mythtv directories in a second hard
> drive, separate from the one with the operative system. The problem is that
> when I try to change the default storage group that comes with the
> installation for one subfolder in my 2nd HD, mythTV can't write to it.
>
> Here is my setup:
> Ubuntu 11.10 system with 2 internal 1Tb HD with several partitions.
> MythTV (single backend/frontend) installed from repository
> ppa:mythbuntu/0.25, using this command: sudo apt-get install mythtv.
> A partition in my second drive mounted to the filesystem at /content.  It
> is what I would considered properly mounted, as shown here from the fstab
> file:
>    #         <UUID>                          <mount point>  <type>
>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>
>    UUID=23af0479-7f92-4691-a3fc-5ebbc1ba888f /content        ext4
>  defaults        0       2
>
> The UUID refers to a logical partition in my b drive, sdb6, as shown here:
>    @:  blkid -U 23af0479-7f92-4691-a3fc-5ebbc1ba888f
>    /dev/sdb6
>
> In /content, I have created a subfolder named "mythmedia" and set up
> permission for MythTV to access it, as shown here:
>    @:  /content$ ls -l | grep mythmedia
>    drwxrwxr-x  2 mythtv mythtv        4096 2012-06-04 17:19 mythmedia
>
> MythTV would work fine when using the default storage group
> "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/".  However, when I attempt to change it from
> the backend setup to "/content/mythmedia/" nothing gets recorded.  The
> directory /content and all its subfolders work fine for all other purposes
> (Nautilus, Samba, etc.), but for some reason MythTV doesn't want to use it
> (i.e. no Tuner woul record to it).
>
> It is also odd that when I exit out of the backend setup, it doesn't give
> me the message about the directory not exiting, so presumably, the backend
> is able to see the folder is there.  However, when accessing the
> information at (breadcrumbs) MythTV frontend> Information Center > System
> Status> Machine status >, it shows only the space available in my main hard
> drive (the one with /boot, /, /home and swap), ignoring the larger drive
> mounted at /content.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
What are the permissions on /content? It would need to have at least R-X
for group and everyone.
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