[mythtv-users] boot off compact flash

[Bob]

Stroller wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2007, at 11:12, btsglw wrote:
>   
>>> Can anyone who is booting off compact flash tell me how they
>>> "partition" their system, please?
>>>
>>> Do you keep the sql database (/var/mysql or whatever) on the flash
>>> drive, 
>>>       
Don't do this
>>> I have a 4gig CFcard kicking around here which I thought to use for
>>> this, but it was quite a cheap one, and probably quite slow...
>>>
>>> I plan to use Gentoo for my MythTV system, rather than the MiniMyth
>>> mentioned in the article you link to...
>>>       
>> ...
>> The cf card in minimyth is used to load the system into memory and
>> then connect to the mythbackend on a separate pc.  For a normal
>> backend I don't see what the advantage to using a cf card would be,
>> but maybe that's just my short-sightedness :)
>>     
>
> The system is to be a combined FE / BE.
>
> As I understand it is advisable not to put / on the same hard-drive  
> as a video store.
> Am I wrong?
>   

The video store will take the most beating so it's not a good idea if 
you can avoid it

> Because if I need to put / on a separate hard-drive then my choices are:
> - buy an 80gig hard-drive (the smallest currently available new)  
> for / and leave it mostly empty
> - find an old 20gig - 40gig drive lying around & use that.
>
> In either of these cases it seems to me that having two hard-drives  
> running will be noisier than having merely one. An older drive that I  
> had lying around is likely to be older and particularly noisy!!
>
> Using a CFcard would therefore seem to reduce noise somewhat. I can  
> accept having a single hard-drive operating when I am watching TV,  
> but I would prefer to reduce the number of other components making  
> noise.
>   

I'd do what I suggest in this thread
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/265064#265064
put /etc and a few of the more static mount points on a CF card
with the rest on a Fujitsu 200GB 4200RPM laptop harddrive.

"For the most part the data rates required by MythTV are not that high,
particularly if you've only got one/two sources and/or one/two
frontends, you could probably make do with a couple of 4200RPM jobs,
according to THG the fujitsu 200GB only consumes 2.2m max and 0.6w at idle
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25.html?modelx=33&model1=598&model2=602&chart=157 
<http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25.html?modelx=33&model1=598&model2=602&chart=157> 

if you put /etc and a few of the more static mount points on a CF card
with the rest on a Fujitsu 200 you could then use LVM to join whatever's
left of that drive with another, probably resulting in around 390GB of
storage for recordings, that consume less than 5w"

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