Re: myth box

[Richard Fifarek <rfifarek@fifarek.net>]

ls -ld /storage/recordings
ls -ld /storage

	Those two commands will give you the information you are looking for.
The d flag tells ls not to list the contents of the directory, but
rather the information about directory itself.


On 5/4/11 3:07 PM, Craig Ziegel wrote:
> how do I go about doing that?
> I did 
> $ ls -l /storage/recordings
> total 0
> $ ls -lh /storage/recordings
> total 0
> 
> On Wed, 04 May 2011 14:04:51 -0600
> Richard Fifarek <rfifarek@fifarek.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/4/11 2:00 PM, Craig Ziegel wrote:
>>> unable to create file "/storage/recordings//.test"- directory is not
>>> writable
>>
>> 	Check the simple things first:
>>
>> 	- /storage and /storage/recordings need to have at least 0755
>> permissions ( drwxr-xr-x )
>>
>> 	- /storage/recordings needs to be owned by the username that
>> is trying to write to the directory, typically mythuser or mythtv.
>>
>> 	If all that checks out, is /storage a separate mounted
>> disk/partition that was added after install of the system?  If so,
>> unmount /system, then change the permissions on /storage to 0755,
>> then remount the partition and try again.
>>
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Richard H. Fifarek
rfifarek@fifarek.net

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