[Blackpool] More on MythTV...

[Jon Chamberlain]

I successfully used Clonezilla  (running from a USB stick), to clone the
small hard drive directly onto a larger, external 120GB drive (thanks
for the suggestion Les). Then I swapped the two drives, and then started
up Myth to make sure it still worked (me? pessimistic?).

With that done, I:

      * Went into GParted (once I had installed it - it's not standard
        *shock*), and created a new partition using up a large portion
        of the empty space. (glad y'all told me this would need to be
        done)
      * Created a mount point called /mnt/myth-media/
      * Changed ownership of the directory to match the ownership of the
        default directories, i.e. chown -R mythtv:mythtv /mnt/myth-media
        (*very important*)
      * Change permissions on the directories: chmod -R
        755 /mnt/myth-media/
      * Added a line to /etc/fstab to get the partition to mount at
        boot: /dev/sdc /mnt/myth-media/ ext2 defaults 0 0
      * ran sudo mount -a to get the system to load the partition
        immediately
      * Ran MythTV setup to add the new folders to the storage groups
        already defined for LiveTV and Recordings
      * Went into Info Centre to check that it could see the extra
        storage
      * Lastly, watched TV and recorded a TV program, whilst monitoring
        the new directories for video files


So, all-in-all, a model upgrade. Thanks for everyone's help. :-)

Cheers,
Jon 


On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 12:00 +0000, blackpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:56:26 +0000
> From: Jon Chamberlain <jonachamberlain at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] More on MythTV...
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Thanks to everyone that replied.
> 
> Will give Clonezilla/GParted a go and let you know how I get on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
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> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 19:11 +0000,
> blackpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk
> wrote:
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:01:10 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: DONALD SIMPSON <donaldsimpson208 at btinternet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Blackpool] More on MythTV...
> > To: LUG Blackpool <blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>,        Jon
> > Chamberlain
> >         <jonachamberlain at gmail.com>
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> > Hi Jon,
> > ?
> > These WIKI pages contain some useful information about the file
> > systems that can be used.
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/File_storage
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XFS_Filesystem
> > ?
> > Donald.
> > 
> > 
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