[mythtv-users] Partition Advice.

[marduk]

Aside from the other comments, I would recommend *not* using ext3 on
your mythtv partition.  The reason being that since recordings take up a
lot of space, so does your journal. So even if/when you delete a large
recording the information is still kept in the journal (in case you want
to roll back).  I've seen a case where a user deleted all the files in
his mythtv partition, but still had 0 space left, do to the fact that
everything is journalled.  I couldn't find any resources on how to clear
an ext3 journal except one post on the net saying to remount the
partition as ext2 and delete the .journal file.

Of course, if you put the journal on another device you won't have that
problem.  Also, other journalling filesystems may be different.

My mythtv partition is ext2 and I use LVM to merge 4 drives into one
volume group.

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 01:15, Duncan Thomas wrote:
> Hello all. New user - Very happy.
> 
> My current setup is 2 drives.
> 
> First one is a dual boot NTFS - EXT3 40 gig hard drive
> Second one is a 200 gig NTFS Partition.
> 
> I basically want to scrap the NTFS partition on the second drive and
> dedicate it for my TV recordings and DVD's. I was going to simply set
> the second drive up as EXT3.
> 
> Can anyone give some advice on how they would set this up with respect
> to the file system? I have gleaned a bit of information from the mailing
> list and the Myth site but not enough to make a decision with respect to
> file system performance etc. I am not sure if this is a factor, but I
> would want to run Samba to share out the second drive. 
> 
> Regards Duncan
> 
> 
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