I would like to use my USB drive to store the /myth/video
/myth/music /myth/gallery folders.

What is the best way to do this? What kind of fstab entrys would I make?

or is there a better way?

Craig

There is a bunch of refrences on how to do this.

I did it the manual way but the various scripts TJC and Cecil have posted work too.



Refrences:
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... orageHowto

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Don't overlook the possibility of having it both ways. For example, you could mount the USB drive as a sub-dir of any of these. That way you could have:

/myth/gallery -- stuff that's actually local, IN that directory
/myth/gallery/usb -- stuff on the USB
/myth/gallery/xpbox -- stuff on another box, mounted via SMB

Now when you browse into the gallery, you'll see all of it.

still not having any luck.

I am able to fdisk and see that the drive is /dev/sda

I made a partition 200GB as /dev/sda1

formatted it as ext3

have run the scripts followed a few posts but am having no luck using the drive.

this line in the /etc/auto.usb concerns me

sda1 -fstype=vfat,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sda1

It specifies vfat so I changed it to ext3 because that is what i have formatted the drive as.

sda -fstype=ext3,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sda1

Is that incorrect?

cannot cd to it under /mnt/usb or /mnt/usb/sda1


Thanks for the suggestions.



Craig

Remember that those directions/scripts were originally written for "portable" USB devices with a VFAT filesysytem on them like a USB key or a drive that you could plug into a MS-Windows box. You need to change the filesystem type in /etc/auto.usb if you formatted the drive differently. You should probably also be removing the UID/GID settings.

Finally, you need to be looking in the system log files for diagnostic information if this isn't working for some reason. The messages there are your best resource for debugging issues like this.

Dis as you suggested the auto.usb now reads

# Format of file:
# mountpoint options device
#sda -fstype=vfat,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sda1
sda -fstype=ext3,umask=002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sda1
#sdb -fstype=vfat,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sdb1
#sdc -fstype=vfat,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sdc1
#sdd -fstype=vfat,uid=1002,gid=1002,umask=002,noatime :/dev/sdd1


I looked at the syslog and this is what happens when I plug in the drive


Apr 14 09:29:01 mythtv kernel: usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Apr 14 09:29:01 mythtv kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 14 09:29:01 mythtv kernel: usb-storage: device found at 3
Apr 14 09:29:01 mythtv kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Apr 14 09:29:02 mythtv usb.agent[5027]: usb-storage: already loaded
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv scsi.agent[5079]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: Vendor: ST325082 Model: 4A Rev: 3.AA
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: sda: sda1
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Apr 14 09:29:07 mythtv kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Apr 14 09:30:14 mythtv ntpd[4692]: synchronized to 192.83.249.31, stratum 2
Apr 14 09:30:14 mythtv ntpd[4692]: time reset -0.508062 s
Apr 14 09:30:14 mythtv ntpd[4692]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
Apr 14 09:31:37 mythtv automount[5123]: failed to mount /var/autofs/usb/sdc
Apr 14 09:34:31 mythtv ntpd[4692]: synchronized to 192.83.249.31, stratum 2
Apr 14 09:35:01 mythtv /USR/SBIN/CRON[5128]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 /tv/mythlink.sh)
Apr 14 09:35:37 mythtv ntpd[4692]: kernel time sync enabled 0001

the only thing i see is the message about failing to mount sdc

I am not sure why it is trying to mount sdc instead of sda

under mount there is no link for sda just sdc not sure how to correct this or why the scripts are not putting a link in there.

will keep playing around any help apppreciated.

Thanks
Craig

Try unmounting all your "sd[a-f]" devices then replugging. You dodn't have a SATA drive or something else which is already being seen as "sda" do you? Oh, and after changing those files you need to restart the auto mounter like the script does.

no other drives just one ide hardrive and a cdrom.

when I unmount any sd drive I get an error except for with /dev/sda1

Craig

ok it appears it was me leaving the umask line in

seems to work now



Craig

I actually want to do this exact same thing...so, really, ignore this post, it's more so I can find this thread later

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