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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:12 am 
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I've just added my 1Tb harddrive to my original 500Gb hard drive. As I wanted more video sotrage space I created a new storage group called video.

On my second hard drive I had created a new video folder /myth2/video
I made sure myth had ownership.

# chmod --reference=/myth/video /myth2/video

# chown mythtv:mythtv /myth2/video

I stopped the backend and entered mythtv-setup.

# /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop

# mythtv-setup

I created a new storage group "Video"
I added /myth/video and my newely created /myth2/video to it.

Restarted Mythackend.

# /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start

In the frontend I navigated to >Utilities/Setup>Setup>Media Settings>Video Settings>General Settings

On page 1 in the entry for "Directory that holds video" I added the new video folder.
It will now read /myth/video:/myth2/video

On page two, untick box Show folders for database video, otherwise you get ugly folders instead of a nice clean set of posters.

The added advantage of this is that you get o see how much disk space is being used on the system status page in "Information"

Regards Chris

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:47 pm 
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Storage groups are only for recorded TV. All that you needed to do was the configuration in the frontend to add the second video folder (/myth/video:/myth2/video).

This point is further proven when you go to rip a DVD, you can't choose a storage group as the destination.

The note about seeing free space on the system status page is true, but if you already had another storage group for tv that included those two drives, then you would already get that information.

Unless i've completely missed something.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:43 pm 
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Fair comment.

Actually, not meaning to sound sniffy, I didn't realise it was 'supposed' to be for live recordings only.

I'll have to look into undoing it (don't want to break anything). Though saying that I've not noticed any ill effects yet...

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:17 am 
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Even easier, the video manager scans the whole directory tree under /myth/video so you can mount or link multiple volumes there and it will just find them. The behavior for /myth/music is the same. As a result you just don't need the same type of "directory pool" support that you do for the TV recordings.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:11 am 
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tjc wrote:
Even easier, the video manager scans the whole directory tree under /myth/video so you can mount or link multiple volumes there and it will just find them. The behavior for /myth/music is the same. As a result you just don't need the same type of "directory pool" support that you do for the TV recordings.

You can even mount NFS and Samba shares! All my music and pictures are actually on another machine.

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