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How to access Media Files on an Internal HD? - TinXpH - 2010-06-25

Hey guys,
just set up XBMC Live on my HTPC(+AEON Skin 0.9, Stark), which includes a 500gb S-ATA HD with 3 Partitions:

  1. XBMC #1 Bootable
  2. XBMC #2
  3. My Media Storage (ext4)

Now, I want to populate my Library and add Video Files - When I go to "Movies", it says "Your library is empty" which is fair enough because I haven't added anything yet. The next step is to go to "Files" which leads me to a menu which shows me my connected external USB-HD as well as the "Add Source" button.

When I go for the latter I go "Browse" leading me to to a list of possible locations:
  • HDHOMERUN Devices
  • REPLAYTV Devices
  • UPNP Devices
  • WINDOWS NETWORK Devices
  • HOME FOLDER
  • SAP STREAMS
  • VIDEO PLAYLISTS
  • ZEROCONF BROWSER

Now, the question is: where and how can I access my media files on Partition #3? I know about the 'HOME FOLDER' (/home/xbmc/), but I would prefer to have a dedicated Partition for my Media stuff without cluttering my Home Folder. The issue here is that I cannot navigate to this partition! I believe it's sda2, where could I enter this path and access the folders+contents on it?

Any solution?

I appreciate your help guys, thanks in advance!

- jhsrennie - 2010-06-25

As I recall XBMCLive doesn't mount internal hard disks by default, but it's relatively simple to change this. Try searching the XBMC Live forum and/or wiki.xbmc.org.

JR

- TinXpH - 2010-06-25

jhsrennie Wrote:As I recall XBMCLive doesn't mount internal hard disks by default, but it's relatively simple to change this. Try searching the XBMC Live forum and/or wiki.xbmc.org.

JR

Hey JR, thanks for your reply Smile Mh I searched both the forums and the Wiki, but couldn't find anything in that regard Rolleyes Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

- handsomepete - 2010-06-25

Alternatively, you could try mounting the drive manually. There is help doing that in the Ubuntu forums.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915744

- jhsrennie - 2010-06-25

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50489

The instructions are a little terse, but at least they contain keywords you can search for to find more info.

JR

- TinXpH - 2010-06-26

Thanks to the both of you, jhsrennie's link did it for me Smile

- MacUsers - 2010-06-26

TinXpH Wrote:Thanks to the both of you, jhsrennie's link did it for me Smile
Isn't creating a simple symbolic link in $HOME is answer to your question? That works pretty good for me. Cheers!!