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The record time of 120G hardrive is not increased

Hi,

Original hardrive of my TiVo is 40G, I replaced it with 120G
hardrive. The new drive seems to work fine, it can record correctly and show correclty. But I found the record time of 120G hardrive is not increased, it is still same as 40G hardrive.

Can someone please tell me why this happen and how to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot

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zhiyong,

Please tell us the exact steps you took to move the data on the 40GB drive to the 120GB drive.

Scott

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Hi,Scott,

Thanks for reply!!

My step is "
1.mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
2. mfsrestore -s 127 -bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb
Because there are no place for new hardrive and old hardrive togeter in my TiVo, I just put the new hardrive in the TiVo, intead of two hardrive together. I then try the new hardrive on the TiVo. It works fine, but the recording time is not increased.

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This is the command I would have used:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

This would give you a copy of everything on the original A drive on the new A drive. It would also allow the TiVo unit to use the extra space.

You can still do this if you have not changed anything on the original A drive.

Scott

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Scott,

Thanks!

Is there some command that I can let new drive to use extra space directly without doing backing up and restoring again?

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Sure. You can use this command:

# mfsadd -x /dev/hdb

That should do it. But it might create extra partitions which might limit your ability to add a second drive in the future. Robert S will correct me if I am wrong.....

Scott

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That should be fine.

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Hi,Scott and Robert,

Thanks a lot!!

zhiyong

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wish I had known about that command before I had to start over after only copying with the DD command. Imagine my suprise when my 160 gig drive showed 35 hrs.
LOL

livin' and learnin' I am

Gunnyman

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