[mythtv-users] additional drive

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 23:25:39 UTC 2014 

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Mark,
>
> Saturday, September 13, 2014, 1:13:20 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> 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
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
>
> > 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.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> In my experience they often change on mounting, I guess to the rights
> of the root of the mount volume. So you have to check mounted.
>
> 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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Things went well when I made the change mounted, we'll see after a reboot.
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