[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 04:20:09 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just moved from many years of a mythtv backend/frontend combo
> so a new setup which has a dedicated backend + multiple frontends.
> I've reused the old combo disk in one of the frontends which is a
> 1.5TB disk. But I'm thinking that must be a total waste. How much disk
> space does a frontend-only machine need? Surely it only needs a small
> disk of 20GB or less to run the O/S and MythTV? Does anything else
> ever get stored on a frontend?

You are right, but you could perhaps use it to store videos or
something (query: can you use a slave backend simply for a video
storage group?)



>
> Regards,
> Phill
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