[mythtv-users] Partitioning Recomendations
Mike Perkins
mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Jun 26 15:12:26 UTC 2007
Craig Huff wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>> I am about to rebuild my Mythtv/Ubuntu Feisty box. Previously I had
>> the whole thing in one big partition, but I want to do it properly
>> this time. Its on a 250GB (seems to give me around 232GB formated I
>> was using lvm/xfs).
>>
>> I think the partitions I want are:-
>>
>> swap 512MB (I have 512MB memory)
>> / 10GB xfs
>> /boot 256MB
>> /myth xfs rest
>> Does this make sense or should I do /usr, /home, /var... seperate?
>
> Ben,
>
> It may be just *my* paranoia, but I've seen too many runaway log files in
> the past, so I make /var a separate partition.
>
> I would make root (/), /boot, and /var all ext3, not xfs. xfs is good for dealing
> with large files and deleting them quickly, but for general purpose storage I
> would go with ext3. I have about the same size disk and made my /var
> partition 1GB (mostly because I didn't have a yardstick to go by for sizing it)
> and I haven't had any issues (yet!).
>
> I see no reason to create partitions for /usr, /home, etc. unless you expect
> there to be files that can have runaway growth like log files you forgot to
> apply something like logrotate to.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Craig.
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Don't forget you might want to make sure your mysql files are on a
different spindle/IDE channel to limit i/o contention.
Mike Perkins
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