[mythtv-users] mount recordings

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mark,

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 1:05:28 PM, you wrote:



>> On 24 Aug 2014, at 8:11 pm, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hoi Daryl,
>> 
>> Sunday, August 24, 2014, 1:30:58 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 08/23/2014 05:14 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> ...
>> 
>>>> How about rights. does the user you use to look have x rights on the
>>> 
>>> mountpoint
>> 
>>> He's running sudo mount ..., and the directory /media/storage 'should'
>>> have been copied over, as he cloned this drive. But it's reasonable
>>> to check: ls -ld /media/storage.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Bill
>> 
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>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -ld /media/storage
>> 
>>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 11  2013 /media/storage
>>> 
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ 
>> 
>> Just to be sure, you might want to change ownership to mythtv ( if
>> that is your myth user):
>> sudo chown mythtv /media/storage
>> 
>> If you do this before mounting check again after. Mounting can change
>> rights and ownership of the mountpoint.
>> 
>> 
>> Tot mails,
>>  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>> 
>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>> 
>> De lerende Mens
>> 
>> _______________________________________________

> Although if this is the issue then changing the owners from within
> one install may break the other installs.

> I guess running:

> ls -al

> In the directory with the recordings after booting from each of the
> three installs will give the answer.

> But there is probably a strong likelihood that Hika is correct
> because one install is Ubuntu and one is Mythbuntu so the mythtv
> user probably has different UID and GID under each install.

> I can't help but think that the main problem(s) that we are facing
> here are triggered in various ways from having three operating systems.

> Off-topic maybe, but I'll just throw it out there as a 'possible
> plan' but wonder whether it is worth disconnecting the 250Gb and
> getting the system fully functioning entirely on the 1Tb (which has
> the recordings attached). Once that is working, low level format the
> 250Gb (and repartition) and then clone the working OS to the 250Gb
> in final configuration with the 1Tb disconnected, get it all
> working. Then upgrade to 14.04. Iron out the bugs, reattach the
> storage and then (hopefully) all done.

> I'm starting to get a bit lost as to what install is doing what
> now, don't know how others are fairing with it :-)
> _______________________________________________

Ah yes, I forgot about the uid. Sounds plausible. Mine are the same on
all machines for I use ldap for that.

You could test with the drive by running after every OS switch:
sudo chown -R mythtv /media/storage

Or wherever the volume is mounted in that OS. The '-R' switch makes it
recursive, changing ownership for the whole volume. With chown and
chmod you have to use the capital R.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens