[mythtv-users] Relocating recordings storage directory

[Mailing Lists]

-----Original message-----
From:Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Sent:Thu 09-02-2012 14:19
Subject:Re: [mythtv-users] Relocating recordings storage directory
To:Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>; 
On 02/09/2012 06:37 AM, Andre wrote:
>
> On 9 Feb 2012, at 06:57, Mailing Lists wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> I currently have all of my recordings stored in a directory called /myth/tv, I would like to be able to relocate them to another folder - /media/myth/tv.
>
> You can just remount the drive in /media or just mv the files if it's one filesystem, then change the storage directory path in mythtv-setup and everything will be found and recorded as before. I have done this many times when re-organising multiple disks.

You might consider choosing a different mount point than /media. In the latest 
openSUSE version, the file system was changed to mount /media in tmpfs. All the 
fstab entries for /media were thus broken. I'm not sure if other distros will 
choose that approach, but calling it something like /video avoids the problem.

Larry


_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Unfortunately I don't have much choice because the Humax box that I'm mounting the myth folder on will ONLY let me mount a volume under /media and the symlinks for mythlinked recordings will only work on the Humax box if they're poining to the same source directory.

 
ie. /media/myth/Recordings/progname.mpg -> /media/myth/tv/100120120121002200.mpg will work only if /medi/myth/tv exists on the Humax box, otherwise the links are broken.

 
I can only hope that Ubuntu doesn't break /media in the same way.

 
Regards,

Dave.
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20120209/c9732e0e/attachment.html