[mythtv-users] Partitioning 1TB disk to MythTV

[Jake]

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your replyes, I am not any expert on this, so I must read
>> lots before start to config the partition, I used to select automatic
>> partition on my last Debian installs.
>>
>> For the second drive, ¿which will be the ideal one? ¿SSD? My HTPC has
>> a small box, so it will be 2,5 inches, it is SATA.
>
>
> SSD is overkill, but would work well. If you need a 2.5, a basic laptop HDD
> will work fine as well. I used an old 40G IDE drive from a TiVo and it
> worked great. Boot was a little slow, but still plenty quick and I didn't
> see it waiting on the DB much. Recordings should go on a dedicated drive,
> you will be much happier as you start loading the system down with
> recordings and such. I had to switch after the fact, much harder than doing
> it right the first time.
>
> I don't really recommend the slowest drive you can find either, but I had
> the 40G sitting in a box and wanted to see if it would help. It did. For the
> 1TB, I would do a single partition, XFS with the parameters mentioned on the
> wiki. Personally, I would skip LVM on a drive for recordings. You don't need
> it and it's another layer for the data to go through. If you want to expand,
> all you need to do is add another drive or replace the existing one with a
> file copy before starting Myth again. Another benefit to using the whole
> drive for recordings only. :)
>

i totally support the above two recommendations. no need for LVM as
myth now supports multiple directories for everything. XFS is a good
choice but just be aware that you can't shrink an XFS partition if
that ever is an issue. even though myth supports media in multiple
directories you can always use aufs if you want an easier file system
to browse!

as for the distro choice, i am a debian user tracking testing and you
should have no more trouble installing and using myth than on another
distro. if you're a debian user and are looking for mythtv packages
you should know about http://debian-multimedia.org/ if you don't
already.  if you want to build from source apt-get build-dep mythtv
should bring in all the required dev packages but to run myth you
probably have to manually install a few things (mysql?)  good luck!

hth and welcome to the mythtv community!