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Chris Pinkham wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20100209031332.GA487@pooh.bc2va.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">For Storage Groups, you never want to set the Storage Group to point at
the root directory of the filesystem. You want to point the Storage Group
at a subdirectory on the filesystem. This way if the filesystem is not
mounted properly for some reason, MythTV will detect this since the Storage
Group directory doesn't exist and will not use that directory instead of
recording to the mount point itself potentially filling up your root
partition.</pre>
</blockquote>
Chris,<br>
<br>
Thanks for this explanation above.<br>
<br>
I don't remember why I was prompted to do it this way originally, but I
did.<br>
<br>
I ended up using the super-duper creative directory name '<tt>files</tt>':<br>
<br>
<tt>/recordings/files/<br>
/recordings2/files/<br>
/videos/files<br>
/music/files<br>
...etc.<br>
</tt><br>
<br>
Is there a technical reason that the fanart, banners, screenshots, and
coverart directories are all two levels down? Or, is it just aesthetic
preference?
<pre wrap=""><i>>Videos -> <span class="moz-txt-slash"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>nas/video5/movies<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></span>
>Fanart -> /nas/video1/images/fanart
>Banners -> /nas/video1/images/banners
>Screenshots -> /nas/video1/images/screenshots
>Coverart -> /nas/video1/images/coverart</i>
</pre>
Considering the new disk configuration:<br>
<tt><br>
/dev/hda<br>
<br>
hda1, 96GB, mount point /, Ext3<br>
hda2, 200GB, mount point /multimedia, XFS<br>
hda3, 2GB, SWAP<br>
<br>
/dev/sda<br>
<br>
sda1, 460GB, mount point /recordings1, XFS<br>
<br>
/dev/sdb<br>
<br>
sdb1, 400GB, mount point /recordings2, XFS<br>
</tt><br>
<br>
...the storage groups (with matching directory structure on disk)
should end up like this:<br>
<br>
<tt>Default -> /recordings/files/<br>
Default -> /recordings2/files/<br>
</tt><tt>Music -> /multimedia/files/music/<br>
Pictures -> /multimedia/files/pictures/</tt><br>
<tt>Videos -> /multimedia/files/videos/</tt><br>
<tt>Fanart -> /multimedia/files/images/fanart/</tt><br>
<tt>Banners -> /multimedia/files/images/banners/</tt><br>
<tt>Screenshots -> /multimedia/files/images/screenshots/</tt><br>
<tt>Coverart -> /multimedia/files/images/coverart/<br>
<br>
<br>
</tt>Again, thanks to you, and everyone else who has responded, for all
the assistance!<br>
<br>
- Jim<br>
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