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

[Bert Van Kets]

NFS is Network File System and is the Linux way to share files on a network.

Damian Surr wrote:
> Thanks for that you two,
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but what does 'I export some of those partitions 
> via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions)' mean? Is 
> that just a technical way of saying that you share those drives on the 
> network or something that I should know about before I go ahead?
>
> Thanks
> Damian
>
> James Warden wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     -- 
>>     _______________________________________
>>     Ian Forde
>>     RHCE (7,EL4), CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
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