[mythtv-users] additional drive

[Mark Perkins]

> On 13 Sep 2014, at 7:36 am, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hoi Daryl,
> 
> Friday, September 12, 2014, 11:22:50 PM, you wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hoi Hika,
> 
>> Friday, September 12, 2014, 10:59:15 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> Hoi Daryl,
>> 
>>> Friday, September 12, 2014, 10:53:01 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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
>> 
>>>> Nevermind, I chown'd .mythtv /media/storage2/mythtv/recordings ,
>>>> added it to SD's and all is well. Thanks again to all contributors!  Daryl 
>> 
>>> This last could mean there is a mix-up somewhere between the ntp user
>>> and the mythtv user This because it doesn't get rights through the
>>> user but it gets through the group. This is difficult to fix.
> 
>> Can you give a listing of a recording made with this installation?
> 
>> 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
>> 
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>> Hoi HIka
> 
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv       92556 Sep 10 15:56 1041_20140909233000.mpg.png
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv  3070268984 Sep 10 20:00 1041_20140910233000.mpg
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv       96924 Sep 11 19:11 1041_20140910233000.mpg.png
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv  6248783856 Sep 10 23:14 1041_20140911021600.mpg
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv       88513 Sep 11 22:07 1041_20140911021600.mpg.png
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv  3165651536 Sep 11 20:00 1041_20140911233000.mpg
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv       83296 Sep 11 20:00 1041_20140911233000.mpg.png
> 
> That looks as it should. Why I ask, is that when you added the
> recordings directory with the rights "drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv root" to the
> storage group it said it was inaccessible while it should have through
> the user rights. When you changed the group from root to mythtv it got
> access obviously through the group rights.
> If the same goes for the recordings above it means it will be able to
> play them (for the group has read rights) but it will not be able to
> delete or edit them (for only the user has write rights, the write
> rights to create them came through the directory for there the group
> has now write rights!).
> So keep an eye on that. If after all deleting goes ok, I don't
> understand what happend. If you get problems there, we have to look
> into the user. Possibly two users have the same uid or even something
> I can not yet think of.
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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Do the permissions on the mount point folders need to be checked with the drives unmounted? I think I recall chown mythtv:mythtv all my mount points prior to mounting.