On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:20AM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > Myth is not great at this. I symphathise with the need to punt things, > and so they punted this problem to the lvm system that can be found > in most modern linux kernels. You need to have it or install it. > > I think in the long run this is a poor punt because if people did not > set up their disk with LVM, it's a hard slog to switch things over. > > In addition, LVM won't handle the idea of having some control over what > disk programs go on, and of storing programs on a network mounted filesystem > as well as a local one. This makes some sense. Also, if you want to > use hard drives as an archive, you would like to tell it to move files > to a given filesystem. > > However, I also agree that managing multiple systems, tracking the > free space on each and figuring the right thing to do is also hard. > > Anyway, as to your problem -- do you have lvm? (man lvm) > > If you do, did you make your video partition on lvm? If so, your > problem is easy, mount your new disk, extend your video partition onto > it, then after you delete the shows to make your space requirements > small again, remove the disk from lvm. It should do it all.
Alas, the real *good* choice of filesystem to place atop your LM volumes for Myth is XFS, *and XFS filesystems cannot be shrunken*. If you're going to do it this way, you really need to know if this is also true of whatever filesystem you chose when you set up your video storage partition -- I gather some others have the same problem. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me
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