[mythtv-users] Mythlink.pl & Recordings Directory

[Justin Alcorn]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, jim <jim_32766 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I thought I was doing something smart but it sounds like I might not be
> using best practices. If I can use the recording group entries in the
> backend to point to /home/mythtv/recordings . . . and some future
> update/upgrade won't change it back to "factory default", thus breaking my
> setup . . .  that would solve my problem nicely. I am fairly new to Linux
> and MythTV and really like both. I appreciate all the help from those of
> you with more knowledge/experience. Thanks.


I believe that's what Storage Groups are for - to allow you to specify
where to store recordings.  Are you moving them because your /home is much
larger than your /var ?

Here are three options:

#1 - Storage Groups, I think. I've never used them, so I'm not 100% sure if
that is what they do.

#2 - Mount a different filesystem.  A new drive, or a partition on another
drive, format it (mkfs /dev/sdb1 or similar), move EVERYTHING under
/var/lib/mythtv to it and then mount it by putting something like this in
fstab:
/dev/sdb1       /var/lib/mythtv          ext4        defaults    1  1

(lots of options here, xfs filesystem, Logical Volumes, etc.  )

#3 - if you're really stuck, us a bind mount.  This allows you to mount a
directory from one place so it looks like it's another place.  make sure
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings is empty, and in /etc/fstab:

/home/mythtv/recordings   /var/lib/mythtv/recordings     none   defaults,
bind  1  1

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Justin B. Alcorn
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