[mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?

[Aaron Stewart]

Depends on how much video you want to store :).  For performance, you
might want to make /home its own partition, especially if the box is
being used for other things as well.

Although I'm not sure why you'd want to separate /mnt/store from the
recordings, since you then the drive has to seek out to a different
partition to write out buffers (leading to quite a bit of
head-banging).. Better off making it one place..

Just my 2 bits. 

Cheers,
Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Hurliman
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:34 PM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?


What is a good suggested hard drive size for the /mnt/store buffer 
partition? I will be using a dual-tuner setup with an 80gb hard drive, 
so two recordings could be running simultaneously. What is the maximum 
size for each of the ringbuffers (is it configurable?) and are there any

other buffers or temporary files that should be taken into account when 
creating this partition. I want to maximize hard drive space for storage

while leaving ample space for buffering. Also, the recordings/media will

be stored in /home/mythtv; is it worthwhile from a performance 
standpoint to make /home yet another partition? Or maybe it makes more 
sense to put the mySQL database on it's own partition and everything 
else on the / partition. Samba will be running though and I don't want 
file transfers to interrupt the recording and/or playback.

So we may be looking at /, /boot, /home, /mnt/store, quite the partition

table!

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