[mythtv-users] MythWeb Disk Space Reported Incorrectly

[Mark Gardner]

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Watson
Sent: 30 March 2013 13:52
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disk Space Reported Incorrectly

On 30/03/2013 7:36 PM, Mark Gardner wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Karl Dietz
> Sent: 30 March 2013 06:06
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disk Space Reported Incorrectly
>
> On 29.03.2013 23:11, Mark Gardner wrote:
>> I have configured MythTV to record to a 2TB software RAID5 
>> (/media/raid5/recordings), but Backup Status reports:
> ...
>> oDirectories: MGM10P:/media/raid5/recordings, 
>> MGM10P:/var/lib/mythtv/livetv, MGM10P:/var/lib/mythtv/streaming
> Is /media/raid5/recordings really the mount point? Then it is
> a) a directory on a 250GB file system
> b) the root of 2TB file system
>
> You should put MythTB storage in a directory other then the mount 
> point to avoid filling your root disk in cases where the mount fails.
>
> Regards,
> Karl
>
>
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> Thanks for the reply - can you please let me how I should change this 
> then? (linux newbie...)
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>

Mount the file system at /media/raid5 and create a recordings directory
/media/raid5/recordings

Regards,
Michael

Michael,

I believe that is what I have done! I am now confused :(

I have this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/md0 /media/raid5/ ext4 defaults,noatime,nobootwait 0 0

MArk