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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2009-04-25 14:23:58 +0200
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2009-04-25 14:23:58 +0200
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Added a note to the INSTALL file about using subdirectories to split a large disk into separate areas for VDR's video data and other stuff
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@@ -324,7 +324,14 @@ with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr':
Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the /videoX directories,
since this might cause a lot of unnecessary disk access when VDR cleans up those
directories and there is a large number of files and/or subdirectories in
-there.
+there. If you have a large disk that you want to use for VDR's video data as
+well as other stuff, you may want to create a subdirectory for VDR, as in
+
+ /mydisk/video0
+
+and put your other stuff into, say,
+
+ /mydisk/otherstuff
If your video directory is mounted via a Samba share, and you are experiencing
problems with replaying in fast forward mode, you can comment out the line