On Mittwoch, 15. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Matthias Schwarzott schrieb: > > On Montag, 13. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >> Hi all! > > > > Hi! > > > >> is there any way to let vdr ignore any directories which do not belong > >> to it ? > >> > >> What i have seen is that vdr is recursive checking all directories even > >> on second and third video directory. > >> > >> If the logic is that all needs to be in video.0 directory and its > >> subdirectories and symlinks will be required to let vdr find the > >> recordings, it should not check the other video directories. > > > > [deleted some text that did not made sense to me] > > i did a mount --bind /proc proc/ in video.01 resulting in vdr searching > the proc filesystem resulting in plenty of error messages to the log (no > permission etc) which filled up the log, which in turn filled up my root > filesystem with within 15 min or so. > > I have a directory containing a chroot env. not readable by vdr - except > i forgot to unmount the proc in time. > > >> Think there might be others as well that are using the big disks for > >> other space consuming things - nobody else run into this ? > > > > I don't understand why people do put other stuff into vdr video > > directories? If I want to have video directory and a directory containing > > iso images why not do > > > > mkdir video > > mkdir iso > > and put the stuff there? > > That doesn't help. > /dev/hda1 3,4G 1,4G 1,8G 44% / (microdrive which is > containing video.00, with symlinks, index etc) > /dev/sdb1 932G 929G 3,3G 100% /var/lib/video.01 > /dev/sda1 932G 600G 333G 65% /var/lib/video.02 > > bindmount only works properly in newer kernels. Still on 2.6.24. If you > have an idea of how to use the big harddisks for something else without > preallocating space for other tasks (i.e. partitioning), i would be > happy to hear. I'm pretty aware that this might not be good idea to do > things like i did. On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea > and unnecessary. period. > I thought bind mount does work on even older kernels, still shouldn't a symlink work too? So I did setup lvm on my harddisks and made my video partition a logical-volume that can span as many harddisk as I let join the volume group. Still some time ago I had a setup using vdr's own support for multiple disks as you use it. So I suggest you mount your disks somewhere else (like /mnt/large1 /mnt/large2) and then do bind mounts or symlinks from /var/lib # mount /dev/disk1 /mnt/large1 # mount /dev/disk2 /mnt/large2 # mkdir /mnt/large1/video # mkdir /mnt/large1/video # mount --bind /mnt/large1/video /var/lib/video.01 # mount --bind /mnt/large2/video /var/lib/video.02 Regards Matthias _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
