[mythtv-users] [SOLVED] MythTV storage groups can't see 2nd hard drive

[Simon Hobson]

JCF Junkmail wrote:

>Now I understand.  It seems MythTV developers expected me to give 
>them the whole partition for exclusive MythTV use.

No, I don't believe that is correct.
Myth must have read/write access to the storage directory, and 
implicit in that requirement is that it must have execute access (I 
think, not sure about read as well) to all directories in the path to 
it.
So, in order to access /content/myth, the myth user must have some 
permissions to /content. The execute bit, when applied to 
directories, gives permission to descend through that directory and 
access stuff within it (assuming you know it's name and have 
permissions on it) - but doesn't give you permission to list the 
contents of the directory (that is given by the read bit).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions#Traditional_Unix_permissions



You are welcome to put other stuff under /content, and you do not 
need to give Myth any access to it. Obviously, if you do that, then 
you will be sharing the physical space.

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