[mythtv-users] switching to Ubuntu from Fedora???

Michael MacLeod mikemacleod at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 02:40:32 UTC 2007


Be sure to back up your home directory. The movie posters are actually
stored in ~/.mythtv/MythVideo. If you check, there's a bunch of stuff stored
in there, so I'd recommend keeping your whole home directory. If you use
MythGame, all your zsnes settings and stuff will be in your home directory
as well.

As for LVM, I've had the same two 250 gig drives in an LVM setup through
about four full reinstalls of ubuntu (not 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but actual
reinstalls). I don't see why LVM in Fedora would be so drastically different
that it wouldn't work in Ubuntu.

On 1/22/07, brian boyle <homepvr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/07, Peter Baumgartner <sgt.hulka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/22/07, Kevin Prudente <brewdente at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > stopping me is migrating my LVM partition.  I have a
> > > root partition on a
> > > separate drive and I have an LVM partition across 2
> > > drives.  Will I lose
> > > the data on the LVM partition by installing Ubuntu?
> > > Will Ubuntu
> > > automagically recognize my LVM partition?  Does anyone
> > > have experience
> > > with this.
> >
> > I've been able to read a drive partitioned as LVM in Fedora on Ubuntu.
> > I believe you'll have to install lvm after installing Ubuntu. It would
> > be a good idea to make a note of your /etc/fstab settings for the LVM
> > so you can duplicate them on the new install.
> >
> > Another thing that is great about Ubuntu http://packages.ubuntu.com. I
> > wasted so much time looking up rpm package names for Fedora in google.
> > If you want LVM support in Ubuntu, just do a search on that page for
> > lvm. You'll find lvm2 and lvm-common will provide what you need. You
> > can also do these searches in Synaptic, but the website is faster.
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> Sweet. ok i think I am convinced. So I think my last question is, how do I
> keep all my movies images and details after the reinstall? Every time I do a
> reinstall I have to manually redo my video manager information. And since I
> have a lot of movies this is bigger then the reinstall.
>
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