I have serched the forms and so far i havent found anyone who has posted about this, but i have a 80gig hard drive inside of my system. Now that i have started to record some shows i can see this is not going to be nearly enough. What would happen if i added another slave hard drive(250 gig) would it auto configure it,make me configure it, or would i have to do a reinstall of Mythtv?

LVM.... Please search the forum.

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Look at:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=766&highlight=lvm

and:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/lvm.htm

for LVM help.

Between these two pages I was able to take my autoinstall on a 120GB (w/ 100GB for /myth) and add a 100GB drive for a total of 200GB for /myth. I had to create the subdirectories under /myth since I wasn't smart enough to copy them to another partition first. After that things worked fine. Believe me if I can do it, anyone can. Good luck.

Another option which I used is to:

- manually format the disk

- mount it in a temporary location (/mnt/something)

- move all of /myth/tv over to that location

- umount and remount the disk as /mtyh/tv

- fix /etc/fstab to make that permanent

That's just a very rough outline. It's actually easier than it sounds, and the most time consuming bit is waiting for all the files to copy over. You can find some details on formatting here: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.4