[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings because of ".xsession-errors" file

[Joseph Fry]

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > On 10/13/2012 01:27 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> >>
> >> OUCH.... Someone ought to add a few entries in the various wiki's and
> >> readme's that your media should be stored on it's own partition(s)...
> >
> >
> > I think what you mean "Someone ought to figure out a way to get users to
> > find/notice/read the entries in the various wikis and readmes that your
> > media should be stored on its own partition(s)."  :)
>
> Or myth distros could enforce setting up the data on a different
> partition so that 1st time users aren't caught in a trap. There is
> enough to learn when first installing mythtv without needing to second
> guess a supposedly specialist distro's partitioning scheme (or lack of
> scheme).
>
> /var/lib/mythtv may be the default location for the recordings
> directory because of some desire to go with filesystem purity, but it
> is difficult to set as a separate partition on installation, and
> non-intuitive, particularly if you haven't set up mythtv before and
> have got lost in the wiki.
>
>
Perhaps a simple check and warn in the backend status / sys info pages
would work to save some users... If it detects that any of the recordings
are being written to the same drive as /, /var, /tmp etc.... then it spits
out a big warning?
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