[mythtv-users] Partitioning 1TB disk to MythTV

[Simon Hobson]

Josu Lazkano wrote:

>I have a HTPC and I want to install MythTV to watch satellite
>channels, the PC has 1TB hard drive. How I must partition it?

There's no "MUST" about it - you can partition it as you want, but 
there are some recommendations.

Personally I would do it like this :
100M for /boot - not required these days, but I'm just a bit stuck in my ways !
5G for / - should be waaay more than you need but it's hard to resize 
afterwards.
Some swap
The rest as an LVM PV

Within the LVM I'd then create volumes for :
/var - about 5G should see you through
wherever the database stores it's files (/var/lib/mysql ?)
The rest for a recording store. Mount it on (for example) /store, but 
create a directory in it and store the recording files in 
/store/recordings. That way, if it fails to mount for some reason, 
Myth will fail to find the directory and fail, rather than filling up 
/

Ideally you would put your OS and database on a separate physical 
drive - that way you can parallelise access to the database whilst 
streaming recordings to/from disk.

Also, I might keep back some of the LVM initially - that way, if you 
find you want a bit more room for the db or /var, then there's some 
spare to extend the LV into.
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