Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-10 Thread Udo Richter
Andrew Herron wrote: If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a way to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's menu? You can symlink the partition into the first partition as directory. Not very clean, but should work for playback. (but

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Herron
Udo - thanks for that. Much appreciated. On 6/10/07, Udo Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Herron wrote: If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a way to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's menu? You can symlink the partition

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread JJussi
On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09, Andrew Herron wrote: I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs increase? Magic

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I will look at evms lvm. Thanks. But I'd still like to understand how vdr's own managment of multiple video.xx directories works... Can anyone explain what my options are for using multiple video.xxdirectories? On 6/9/07, JJussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 9. Juneta 2007 13:09,

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Udo Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The details about handling multiple video directories are explained in VDR's INSTALL file. Basically, if you specify -v /var/lib/video.00 on command line, VDR will automatically search for .01 and so on, and will use them all for recording.