Family movies were getting bigger and bigger, extra space on my ATV was needed fast.

A quick trip to FNAC for a cheap 160GB USB2 portable HD and three hacks later (patchstick, usb storage and atv files), and I was happy.

bash-2.05b# uname -a
Darwin appletv.lan 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Mon Jan 29 18:57:29 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.94.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
bash-2.05b# df -k
Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3    921596   448800    463584    49%    /
devfs               97       97         0   100%    /dev
fdesc                1        1         0   100%    /dev            512      512         0   100%    /.vol
/dev/disk0s4  37573000  2741136  34831864     7%    /mnt
/dev/disk1s2 155954992 25893176 130061816    17%    /mnt/Scratch/Volumes/External