[vdr] Re: What to do with a new big hard disk?

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Guy Roussin wrote:
...
> I use vdr with one disc using a partition /video which 
> contains the vdr recordings as well as some other files.  
> (dvd, audio, photo).
You already know that this is not recommended.
See below for one way to fix it.

> I have just bought a new hard disk which I wish to use 
> like second vdr partition. 
> How do I have to configure it?  must i re-elect /video
> as /video0 and name the new one /video1 ?
It is possible to let vdr spread your recordings over
multiple disks by naming them /videoN.

I have suggested that feature a long time ago and I no
longer like it, as it puts the segments of one recording
on different disks (unless that has been fixed in the
meantime and I did not notice it). With all your recordings
spread over all your disks, you loose (parts of) all your
recordings when one disk dies.

I personally prefer an arrangement where I (as opposed to vdr)
determine where a recording goes.

So, I have a /video disk (the only one vdr knows about) and
a number of other disks (mount point name does not matter).

In the top-level /video directory, I only keep top-level
genre directories. Some of them actually lie on /video,
others are symbolic links to other disks.

Of course, load-leveling is not automatic with this technique,
but after a while it gets balanced well enough, so I never
have to move genres to other disks any more.

I use epg2timers, which automatically puts my recordings into
the approriate genre directories.

Here is a current ls -l of my /video:

total 5288
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          14 2003-04-05 05:22 Action -> /video2/Action
drwxr-xr-x   29 cko      users        4096 2003-06-14 12:50 Comedy
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          19 2003-04-15 22:05 Fantasy -> /video4/vdr/Fantasy
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          14 2003-04-05 05:22 Horror -> /video3/Horror
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          12 2003-04-05 05:22 Kids -> /video3/Kids
drwxr-xr-x    6 cko      users          93 2003-05-03 02:18 Misc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          13 2003-04-05 05:22 Music -> /video3/Music
drwxr-xr-x   13 cko      users        4096 2003-06-14 00:35 SciFi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          15 2003-04-05 05:22 Science -> /video2/Science
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cko      users          16 2003-04-05 05:22 Thriller -> /video3/Thriller
-rw-r--r--    1 cko      users     5404207 2003-06-14 12:47 epg.data

and here is a df -hTl of my vdr machine:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2      xfs    114G   80G   35G  70% /
/dev/hdb1      xfs    153G  145G  8.3G  95% /video2
/dev/hdc1      xfs    153G  131G   23G  86% /video
/dev/hdd1      xfs    153G  138G   16G  90% /video3
shmfs          shm    252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm


Carsten.



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