[mythtv-users] Starting from scratch ..yet again. Ubunto to Kubuntu for me I think.

James Warden warjamy at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 23 09:20:06 UTC 2007


you can partition the way you like, mount from any mount point you like.

I have the following partitioning on my small B/E (i.e. single HD of 300G, no raid system, that will come later during the big upgrade I am planning) :

- / : ext3, 7G (main OS + mysql)
- /home : ext3, 5G  (a bit too big, I basically do nothing here, 1G would be enough after all but who knows ... )
- /multimedia/mythtv : xfs, 140G (mythtv stuff only, I don't keep recordings too long so I never really fill up the partition)
- /multimedia/private : xfs, 130G (I put some music, pics, etc)
- /diskless/<client_type> : ext3, 5G (I have different client types, but one partition for all) 
and a bit of swap (256MB)

I export some of those partitions via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions).

It works very nicely for me, never failed me after ~ 6 months. I will soon build a multi-purpose server (the big thing with multiple HDs, etc, that will serve many clients, not only myth FEs). Or maybe I will decentralize and have 2-3 servers instead with a dedicated one for mythtv. Money (= time) will tell ... 

J.

Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:43 +0100, Damian Surr wrote:
> I'm going to browse the gossamer threads for partitions advise, but the 
> main thing I was wanting to know about was having a separate partition 
> for 'home' and naming the large partition.
> 
> The Ubuntu Myth guide had me put all myth recordings etc in something 
> like '/var/lib' (What the hell's var/lib??). After doing that I noticed 
> a much more user friendly guide suggesting a separate partition called 
> /video. Can you call and mount a partition whatever you want? I plan to 
> have all my music on the system as well, so maybe I should have 
> something like '/media' on a separate drive and use /media/video in Myth 
> and /media/music etc.

What I did is have my recordings go into /var/spool/mythtv/, then I have
a NAS (Infrant ReadyNAS NV) exporting NFS shares that I mount
as /mnt/movies/, /mnt/media/mp3/, /mnt/media/images/, etc... I suppose I
could have streamlined it a little to have /mnt/media/movies instead,
but there are other issues.  In any case, I'm not a big fan of having
mount points off of the root.  And since I use Fedora, /media is
reserved for removable media (so that if I have an external USB drive
with the volume label "video", it'll mount as /media/video.  So
using /media is out.  YMMV...

> Cheers for any last minute tips/advice.

No worries!

 -I
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