How to record to a drive other than the boot drive?

[RocketDestroyer]

I am trying to figure out how to record TV programs to my sdb drive instead of the drive with the OS installed on it.  As you can tell I'm also a linux newby which isn't helping.

I have Zorin 16 Lite installed on my computer.  I added a large drive for recording video to but I can't see it in the NextPVR ---> settings ----> General ----> Recording Directory drop down menu.   My second drive is mounted as /media/pvr/video and I can navigate to the video folder using Thunar file system and save files in the video folder.   In NextPVR I can navigate only as far as /media/pvr.  There are no choices available in the PVR directory.   The pvr directory when viewed in file system has a red X on it and the permissions are set to read & write for the root.   The group is set to root and read only but I am able to add and delete files to the /media/pvr/video folder.   The /media/pvr/video folder has permissions set to read and write for both the owner (pvr) and the group (pvr).

Do I need to change the group to pvr and change the permissions to read & write?  I don't want to do anything that will nuke my install, I don't want to start all over again.

Rocket

[mvallevand]

Read this post for more information https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid524823 If you want to use group access it would be group video.

Martin

[RocketDestroyer]

Thanks for the quick response. I think I have set the file ownership and permissions as outlined in your link but I am still unable to see the /media/pvr/Video folder in nextpvr. I can only navigate as far as the /media/pvr folder.

/media/pvr
drwxrwxrwx 3 pvr video 4096 Jul 22 10:20 Video

/home/pvr
drwxrwxrwx 4 pvr video 4096 Jul 22 10:27 Videos

[mvallevand]

What about /media/pvr

Martin

[RocketDestroyer]

Martin,

Changed /media/pvr/Video to drwxrwxrwx 3 nextpvr video 4096 Jul 22 10:20 Video and now it works. I swear I tried that before but I must not have.
Thanks for your help.

Rocket

[mvallevand]

Ok good, it should have worked before without changing the owner. Perhaps you needed to restart to server to get the new permissions and mount point?

Martin