Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
On 20.04.2009 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: A simple use case: * standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability * OS gets a seperate small partition * /videoX get the big rest To add some more variations to the same solution the others already mentioned: - Mount your

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Gerald Dachs
Quoting Peter Dittmann peter.dittm...@pldsnet.com: E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the partition. The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary partitions, but could be of course. Strange as it finally uses symlinks to create

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
Quoting Peter Dittmann peter.dittm...@pldsnet.com: E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the partition. The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary partitions, but could be of course. Strange as it finally uses symlinks to

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Peter Dittmann schrieb: I can't see any evidence for this symlinks, and I don't know a reason for this. The vdr gets told via the option '-v /var/lib/video.00' where the video dir is located. But you see what I'm pointing to. The distries are usually mounting the partition directly

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus st_bars...@gmx.de wrote: the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows that there is a solution/recommendation to create some .do_not_touch files in

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
VDR User schrieb: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus st_bars...@gmx.de wrote: the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows that there is a solution/recommendation to create some

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Ville Skyttä schrieb: On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
On 21.04.2009 21:27, Ville Skyttä wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Montag, 20. April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02: vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty directories in its video directories. From the VDR/INSTALL file: Note that you should not copy any non-VDR

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Udo Richter
On 20.04.2009 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: A simple use case: * standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability * OS gets a seperate small partition * /videoX get the big rest To add some more variations to the same solution the others already mentioned: - Mount your big disk to

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: To add some more variations to the same solution the others already mentioned: - Mount your big disk to /mnt/data - Put video to /mnt/data/video - either:   - pass /mnt/data/video directly to VDR   - put a symlink from

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-16 Thread Steffen Barszus
Matthias Schwarzott schrieb: I thought bind mount does work on even older kernels, still shouldn't a symlink work too? Need to re-check - guess i mix something here. Some bind mount features only start working properly at 2.6.26+ (bind mount ro, move etc). Bind mounting readonly some

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-15 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 15.04.2009 08:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: ...On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea and unnecessary. period. Still I support the opinion that vdr should not silently delete files it does not know. vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-15 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 04/15/09 08:57, Steffen Barszus wrote: Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: On 15.04.2009 08:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: ...On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea and unnecessary. period. Still I support the opinion that vdr should not silently delete files it does not