2012-03-27, 15:59
Last night I decided to try out XBMCbuntu Eden 11.00. I have been running an older SVN build under 8.10 for quite some time. Since everything has been working with out problems, I did not feel the need to upgrade. For my 8.10 I have my hard drive partitioned as follows.
ntfs - Windows 7
ext3 - Ubuntu 8.10
ext3 - /home (this was where all my .xbmc userdata was an where i would build xbmc through svn)
swap - linux swap space
ext4 - added for XBMCbuntu Eden
As of last night i added the ext4 partition for XBMCbuntu Eden to install to. When i used to run my 8.10 version it would auto mount the ext3 /home dir which contained all my userdata. I extracted this partition out so that when i tried to upgrade to 11.10 I could just mount the same partition for my /home location keeping all the same xbmc library information with the same svn revision just built under 11.10. But now I decided to go with XBMCbutu to try it.
Now with XBMCbuntu, the /home is currently part of the new ext4 partition created at installation. I assume i can do the same thing I did before and change it to automount my ext3 /home partition to store all the data from there, but, i wanted to know how i can use my older userdata databases to import all my existing library information - such as what movies have been watched etc? I dont want it to auto-mount this ext3 and corrupt any library data?
ntfs - Windows 7
ext3 - Ubuntu 8.10
ext3 - /home (this was where all my .xbmc userdata was an where i would build xbmc through svn)
swap - linux swap space
ext4 - added for XBMCbuntu Eden
As of last night i added the ext4 partition for XBMCbuntu Eden to install to. When i used to run my 8.10 version it would auto mount the ext3 /home dir which contained all my userdata. I extracted this partition out so that when i tried to upgrade to 11.10 I could just mount the same partition for my /home location keeping all the same xbmc library information with the same svn revision just built under 11.10. But now I decided to go with XBMCbutu to try it.
Now with XBMCbuntu, the /home is currently part of the new ext4 partition created at installation. I assume i can do the same thing I did before and change it to automount my ext3 /home partition to store all the data from there, but, i wanted to know how i can use my older userdata databases to import all my existing library information - such as what movies have been watched etc? I dont want it to auto-mount this ext3 and corrupt any library data?