[mythtv-users] additional drive

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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I still need a little more clarification. Currently recordings etal go to
/media/storage/mythtv due to a link my son installed last year: lrwxrwxrwx
1 root root 21 Aug 26 10:41 /var/lib/mythtv -> /media/storage/mythtv, is it
more standard to move the /var/lib/mythtv directory to the drive
/media/storage? If that is the case, then how would I move the same
directory to two drives?  When I try to add another path to storage
directories I'm told that the directory can't be written to(or some such)
and do I want to go back and fix this? So I delete the recent change. I've
tried "/media/storage2/mythtv" and "/media/storage2/mythtv/recordings"
 same result, they look writeable to me:

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2
total 20
drwx------ 2 root   root 16384 Aug 27 12:54 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 3 mythtv root  4096 Sep 11 08:33 mythtv

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /media/storage2/mythtv
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv root 4096 Sep 11 08:33 recordings

What can I do to get to a standard setup using the two 1Tb drives for
recordings etal?
Also with Precise, recordings went into a recordings directory in the
mythtv dir. now in Trusty they go into the mythtv dir along side the
recordings, videos, fan art, etcetera dir's, is that because of the
follwoing ownership?: drwxrwxr-x 15 ntp  mythtv  4096 Sep 11 07:31 mythtv
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