Support for more than one video directory

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3261ef00..6bf3a9fd 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ If the program shall run as a daemon, use the --daemon option. This
 will completely detach it from the terminal and will continue as a
 background process.
 
+Command line options:
+---------------------
+
 Use "vdr --help" for a list of available command line options.
 
 The video data directory:
@@ -57,14 +60,41 @@ The video data directory:
 All recordings are written into directories below "/video". Please
 make sure this directory exists, and that the user who runs the 'vdr'
 program has read and write access to that directory.
-If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can change
-the value of 'BaseDir' in recording.c.
+If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can use
+the '-v' option to change that.
 
 Note that the file system need not be 64-bit proof, since the 'vdr'
 program splits video files into chunks of about 1GB. You should use
 a disk with several gigabytes of free space. One GB can store roughly
 half an hour of video data.
 
+If you have more than one disk and don't want to combine them to form
+one large logical volume, you can set up several video directories as
+mount points for these disks. All of these directories must have the
+same basic name and must end with a numeric part, which starts at 0 for
+the main directory and has increasing values for the rest of the
+directories. For example
+
+   /video0
+   /video1
+   /video2
+
+would be a setup with three directories. You can use more than one
+numeric digit, and the directories need not be directly under '/':
+
+   /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.00
+   /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.01
+   /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.02
+   ...
+   /mnt/MyVideos/vdr.11
+
+would set up twelve disks (wow, what a machine that would be!).
+
+To use such a multi directory setup, you need to add the '-v' option
+with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr':
+
+   vdr -v /video0
+
 Configuration files:
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