Re: myth box

[Craig Ziegel <mwtransport@wisperhome.com>]

Ok finally got somewhere

[htpc@htpc ~]$ ls -l /storage/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x  2 htpc   htpc    4096 2010-12-20 16:57 dorabackup
drwxr-xr-x 12 htpc   htpc    4096 2010-12-20 16:57 games
drwx------  2 htpc   htpc   16384 2010-12-20 16:48 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x  2 htpc   htpc    4096 2010-12-20 16:57 misc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    4096 2010-11-22 12:02 music
drwxr-xr-x  2 htpc   htpc    4096 2010-12-20 16:57 mytharchive
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    4096 2010-11-22 12:02 pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 htpc   htpc    4096 2010-12-20 16:57 posters
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2011-05-04 14:01 recordings
drwxr-xr-x  2 htpc   htpc    4096 2011-05-04 13:41 temp
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    4096 2011-05-04 14:01 videos
[htpc@htpc ~]$ 

Does this tell you what you need to know? Can you tell me from this how
to fix my problem please. With maybe a little how to if you don't mind.

Thank you

On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:06:49 -0600, Richard Fifarek
<rfifarek@fifarek.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>


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