[mythtv-users] Disk not accepted as part of storage group

Jacob Lauritzen jacob.lauritzen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 22:31:45 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:27 PM, William <william_munson at comcast.net>wrote:

> Jacob Lauritzen wrote:
>
>> I have set up a new MythTV backend on MythBuntu. The system disk is on a
>> 2.5" 250GB disk. This disk is also used for storing recordings.
>> The system also contains a second disk. This is a 1TB disk. This disk is
>> mounted on /media/1TB/.
>> My "default" storage group setup contains two directories:
>> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/ <-- on the 250GB
>> /media/1TB/recordings/ <-- on the 1TB
>>
>> But when the backend starts, I see this in the log file:
>> SG(Default) Warning: Group 'Default' references directory
>> '/media/1TB/recordings/' but this directory does not exist.  This directory
>> will not be used on this server.
>>
>
> I am not certain but it appears that the directory does not exist at the
> time the backend is booting. I had a similar problem in that on boot my raid
> array would not always be mountable when the backend started and it would
> cause this same error message. Of course by the time I could look at the
> system everything had finished mounting so it was hard to troubleshoot. Does
> the backend start correctly on a restart? I ended up moving the backend
> startup script to /etc/rc.local to delay it until after the rest of the
> system had started up. Hope this helps.
>
> W.
>

I had the same theory, but when I restart the backend only, not the whole
computer, then it still does not accept the directory. And it definately is
there at this point.
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