[mythtv-users] Before I install - adding hard drives

Jens Baumeister jens.baumeister at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 23:12:59 UTC 2006


On 1/14/06, Darren Black <lists.drdaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/14/06, Dorsey Graphics <info at dorseygraphics.com> wrote:
>
> >    I am a total Linux newbie (I built and ran Myth about 2 years ago
> > for a while, but some dependencies broke and I couldn't fix it, so I
> > switched to BeyondTV). I'm VERY VERY much a GUI person (if that makes
> > a difference).
>
> The harddisks shouldn't be an issue as far as I know, but it may be
> worthwhile using LVM when partitioning your media storage partitions,

Just to make you feel a bit more at ease about LVM, it requires a
handful of command line commands, but when I recently added anoth 250
GB drive to my mythbox I found adding it to LVM to be very
straightforward. (Then again, I'm a Mac user who didn't mind building
a Gentoo system from scratch, so I guess I feel at home in both
worlds...)

Jens


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