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

[Michael Watson]

On 16/08/2012 2:39 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 8/16/2012 00:36, Michael Watson wrote:
>> On 16/08/2012 1:40 PM, Phill Edwards 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?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Phill
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> My frontend (which are also slave backends for commflag and transcoding)
>> quite happily sit on a 6GB Partition.  They run a standard uBuntu /
>> Mythbuntu install with nothing trimmed down.   I netboot them with iSCSI
>> (so no actual hdd in the frontends, but still works like a machine with
>> a HDD)
>
> Slave backends are expected to have tuners. If you just want to run 
> the jobqueue, use mythjobqueue.

Mythjobqueue doesnt do shutdown on idle, I use the Demo Tuner, so the 
backend has a "tuner."