[mythtv-users] FW: Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Anthony Rooney]

Hi Nick


Although I had the cryptic error message using the chown command in the
terminal I was able to give the user mythtv full permissions on the
/media/Store/Recordings folder using the UI and it all worked Ok and Myth
can now see the full disk capacity of the machine.  Yipee, Yahoo, and Eeh-a
YabbaYabbado.

This is a major breakthrough and it does appear that the documentation fails
to mention that you cannot set alternative storage locations without 1st
setting permissions on the destination locations.

What an enormous oversight!  Who proof reads the doco?  Is it tested on COLD
users?  If not why not?  It is a basic requirement of good design  to be
able to be used intuitively - BY COLD USERS.  Are they concerned with good
design?

The error message displayed mentions nothing about permissions when you
point to a valid location and the documentation does not mention this
requirement either  I mean what chance do you have to configure this
properly.

It is a shame such a good solution as MYTH is so undermined by such SLOPPY
oversights and poor design.


Thanks again for your assistance Nick, most appreciated.


Kind Regards



Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Rooney [mailto:rooneyo at iinet.net.au] 
Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:59 PM
To: 'Discussion about MythTV'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media &
Video Gallery

Hi

I typed the following in the terminal " sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv
/media/Store/Recordings"

And I got the following error - Missing operand after mythtv
/media/Store/Recordings

Kind Regards


Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andre
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 9:13 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media &
Video Gallery


On 27 Jan 2011, at 10:30, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> 
> just to add another location to my default group and do you think the 
> wiki would give you just 1 example of the syntax I need to enter?
> 
> I have a second partition which appears in the file system as 
> "/media/Store/Recordings"
> 
> How do I add this location to the default storage group?  What is the 
> exact text string I have to add as I have read the instructions and 
> without an example I simply cannot get it to work?

Select Default storage group and type:

/media/Store/Recordings

There is an issue with myth recordings directories that might be tripping
you up, the directory should be owned by the mythtv user and myth wants some
slightly odd permissions.

If you get a cannot write to storage directory error (it says something like
that) then try the following commands, you should be able to copy & paste
them into a console but check the paths are right for your system first in
case your first storage directory is not in the usual place. You will be
asked for your password before the first command but probably not the
second.

sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /media/Store/Recordings

sudo chmod --reference=/var/lib/mythtv/recordings /media/Store/Recordings

It would be nice if myth offered to fix these permissions for you if they
are wrong but I don't know how to code that.

Hope this helps.

Andre
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