[mythtv-users] Storage Group relocation - default/recordings not working

[plainface boy]

On 10/31/2017 11:23 AM, plainface boy wrote:

>> I've added a new 3TB drive to my Mythtv 0.28 Ubuntu 14.04 box.The new
>> drive mounts at start up to /media/[myname]/Storage
>> I've created a folder within this called myth, and within that all the
>> separate directories for my storage groups, to mimic what I've got on
>> my main drive.
>> I've added the new folders to my storage groups in set up eg in videos
>> I had;
>> /home/mythtv/videos
>> and added;
>> /media/[myname]/Storage/myth/videos
>> All fine so far, and I was able to delete the files from the
>> /home/mythtv/videos folder, and remove this from the storage group,
>> and videos play ok.
>> However the same procedure does not work for the default folder, where
>> I keep all my recordings.
>> home/mythtv/recordings
>> Even though I've added /media/[myname]/Storage/myth/recordings to the
>> storage group, whatever I do, as soon as I remove either a file or
>> directory from the original  storage group, mythtv cannot find the
>> file.Is there something different about the default folder?
> No.
>
>> I used the 'disk' app to mount the drive at start up, rather than
>> editing fstab.....assume that is ok, as videos work fine?
>>
>> I've looked at the wiki, and read lots of others' questions here etc,
>> and I can't see what I'm doing wrong, but I'm guessing I must be going
>> wrong somewhere!
>> Can anyone help?
> The problem is probably permissions.  Most likely your mythbackend
> process runs as some other user, like mythtv, and your mythfrontend
> process is running as the user logged in to the console (you).  If the
> /media/[yourname] folder is only accessible to you, the backend (which
> reads recordings) can't find the files whereas the frontend (which reads
> videos) can.
>
> Mike
>
So after ages messing about before all this, I re-mounted my new HDD in
fstab, at /Storage (not /media), and the issue is fixed! Not sure which
of those two things was the one that did it, but all is now fine, and
the job done in 5 mins! Mythtv recognises new drive, files copied across.
Thanks.


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