VERY VERY nice, TY much, i am starting to get a feel for the way things should run in a PVR set up....

When I said SD I meant San Disk/ Compact Flash ECT ECT....
I did not realize there was a tuner card referred to as SD, serves me right for abbreviating....

So as far as the Hard Drives, my BOX can handle 1xIDE and 2xSATA so I’m thinking i will install 2xSATA in addition to my 1xUDMA-IDE now installed..... Can this be done in 2 steps? IE, can I add one SATA then next month add a 2nd SATA? And if so at the time I add the 2nd will I need to back up my recordings again? In witch case I would think it would be easier to just add the 2 now instead of messing with possibly loosing the current recordings.

So the only way to preserve the current recordings is to copy them else were, IE SAMBA from my Windows Box…. Also what does copying the “/myth� dir back up, is that like doing a full system backup?

Also you said I should MOVE the “/myth/tv� dir to the SATA, is there a command that will move the content? Or is that the reason for copying it elsewhere then copying it back?

Lastly as far as the database stuff, when you say make a back up, are you referring to the GUI backup from within myth tv? If so I also need to figure out why mine is failing…

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OOH ya also is it posable and/or a good idea to back up the "/myth" dir useing a Windows box or should i mabee invest some time in geting a linux box run, OR should this be done with in Myth?

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You can dump it onto a windows box via SMB share, etc.. But don't copy the files. I think you'd lose the permissions/ownership. Instead, make a compressed tarball, and stick that over on the other machine.

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OK and i assume that makeing the TarBall is done on the PVR box

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Tar should execute on the PVR box, yes.

Ok so if the Frontend GUI is open can i use like CTRL ALT F1 to be able to start that or should i exit the FE then run a terminal from there?

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Either one works. If you use the Alt_X hotkey remember you probably need to su - to become root.

To the bigger question you can add space incrementally to a LVM volume under 2 constraints, first that you use a filesystem which can be resized (ext3, or jfs) and you gave yourself enough indexing slack when you setup the filesystem. I won't try to go into the details since there are a lot of them and you're better off searching for a tutorial on setting up and resizing LVM volumes.

ya I read and printed out from a wikki about LvmHowTo.... so basically if I add a SATA format it in ext3 or JFS then add the LVM I can then later add a second SATA and just expand the LVM....

Some one suggested XFS is that the same as JFS??

Also when you say to leave slack, does that mean, not to allocate the entire disk to the partition? Or should I be searching for a more in-depth read me to explain that?

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No. They're different. If my memory is working right XFS traces it's ancestry to the Silicon Graphics file system and JFS to IBMs AIX journaling file system.

You need to find more in depth coverage. I think LVM 2 avoids the need for the first volume in the volume group to be able to index the whole thing like LVM 1 required, but I don't know if the inode pool gets resized at the same time as an EXT3/JFS filesystem or if you need to allocate enough up front.

I'm the one that suggest XFS and I can verify that it works well in an LVM on non-LVM environment. In terms of saving your stuff, I think there may be a faster approach than copying your existing stuff across the network to a windows box. Here's a high level outline of the strategy. I am assuming that your SATA drive is at least as large as your exisitng IDE drive. If it isn't, you'll need to delete enough stuff from IDE drive so that it an all fit on the SATA drive:

1. Install your SATA drive.

2. Follow the instructions to create an LVM / XFS file system on that SATA drive.

3. Mount that SATA drive. Let's assume your mount it as /mnt/sata

4. shutdown myth backend; mysql; apache.

5. cp -a /myth /mnt/sata

6. Modify your /etc/fstab so that the LVM-based SATA drive is mounted as /myth

7. reboot.

All of you old stuff is still on the old IDE drive, but it is no longer being used. It has all been copied over to your SATA drive and is being used there.

Of course, your old /dev/hda3 partition, which is most of that 200 GB IDE drive, is sitting there unused. You can now add that to the LVM partition so that you have more space for recordings.

Hope this helps!

Marc

Is XFS resizable? It wasn't the last time I checked...

XFS can be increased in size so you can add drives. It cannot be reduced in size, so you cannot remove drives.

Marc

Nasty. I assume you are running something like commercial flagging here?

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Nope, I've switched it off and only commercial cut using manually set cut points.
I think I should really start new thread about this, here

Bruce S.

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Ok I tried to play a DVD for first time, and I think the codex is having problems; video is choppy and pixilated, and extremely unwatchable....

so I tried to rip it and watch from the HD and same thing.... so I then tried other DVD's total of 8 different DVD's from different manufacture, and different security levels (IE Disney and home burn) all with same reaction,

So then I tried to use a different DVD-Rom drive, same result.... I have just bought a brand new DVD-Rom "Sony" drive..... But I’m not very hopeful for the outcome seeming as all other items failed....

Any one have any ideas/ advise?

Also I have tried the first disk in my Xbox and it plays fine, I also put the first DVD-Rom drive and DVD in a windows box and it played fine.

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