Archive for October, 2008

Prune old mythtv channels

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Looking for a way to bulk remove channels that I’ve delselected in my channel lineup at Schedules Direct, I happened upon this blog post. Seems to work great :)

For the impatient, the important bit is this:

DELETE channel,program FROM channel NATURAL LEFT JOIN program WHERE program.title IS NULL;

How to mount partitioned disk image files

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Mounting unpartitioned disk image files in Linux is easy. You just execute ‘mount -o loop disk.img /mnt’ right?

Well, if your disk image file happens to contain partitions its a little bit trickier. Here is what you need to do:

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