On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Udo Richter udo_richter@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 /video to /mnt/data/video
This is the method I use and I haven't had any problems at all. Originally I was mounting a dedicated harddrive to /storage/sata0/recordings for example and symlinking /video to it but I've recently been testing using my fileserver for recording so I can completely remove all harddrives from my vdr boxes. In that case on the fileserver I am mounting the harddrive to /mnt/lan/recordings and on the vdr box symlinking /video to it.
So far it has worked great. Although I'm finding that the dedicated 500GB harddrive isn't going to suit my hdtv recording needs for long.