[mythtv-users] additional drive

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Thursday, September 11, 2014, 6:21:19 PM, you wrote:


> On Sep 11, 2014 11:51 AM, "Mike Perkins"
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/09/14 15:30, jedi wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:58:09PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/09/14 22:46, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> [deletia]
>>>
>>>>>> You can not mount two volumes on the same mountpoint. Or actually you
>>>>>> can, but only the last mounted will be visible.
>>>>>> You have to add a second directory, for instance /media/storage2 and
>>>>>> mount the second volume there.
>>>>>> In mythtv-setup you add the second mountpoint to the same storage
>>>>>> group as where you have /media/storage. Myth will then spread new
>>>>>> files over the two volumes. This depending on your settings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hoi Hika, I'm unclear on adding the second mount point. I stop the back-end
>>>>> and go to storage directories and don't know what to so from there. I did
>>>>> change the fstab as you suggested to /media/storage2
>>>>>
>>>> Did you reboot after changing the fstab? This is essential.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...no it's not. Just mount the new drive. You can do this manually. There's
>>> no need to go through the bother of an entire reboot to get this implemented.
>>>
>>>     You can also reconfigure & restart nfs or samba without a reboot.
>>>
>>>
>> Not entirely. Don't forget he was left in the situation where both drives were already mounted to the same mount point.
>>
>> Changing the fstab won't necessarily fix that situation by itself. You would have to unmount in the reverse sequence with obvious potential for further errors so rebooting was the quickest and surest way to fix the situation.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>
>>
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> Because both drives had the same mount point I couldn't unmount in
> any order, so I changed fsftab then rebooted.

Actually you could have by running twice (or untill it said there
wasn't anything mounted there) sudo umount /media/storage.
But rebooting is saver and more secure, for you then return it to the 
default state.



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