you can partition the way you like, mount from any mount point you like.<br><br>I have the following partitioning on my small B/E (i.e. single HD of 300G, no raid system, that will come later during the big upgrade I am planning) :<br><br>- / : ext3, 7G (main OS + mysql)<br>- /home : ext3, 5G (a bit too big, I basically do nothing here, 1G would be enough after all but who knows ... )<br>- /multimedia/mythtv : xfs, 140G (mythtv stuff only, I don't keep recordings too long so I never really fill up the partition)<br>- /multimedia/private : xfs, 130G (I put some music, pics, etc)<br>- /diskless/<client_type> : ext3, 5G (I have different client types, but one partition for all) <br>and a bit of swap (256MB)<br><br>I export some of those partitions via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions).<br><br>It works very nicely for me, never failed me after ~ 6 months. I will soon build a multi-purpose server (the big thing with multiple HDs, etc, that will
serve many clients, not only myth FEs). Or maybe I will decentralize and have 2-3 servers instead with a dedicated one for mythtv. Money (= time) will tell ... <br><br>J.<br><br><b><i>Ian Forde <ian@duckland.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:43 +0100, Damian Surr wrote:<br>> I'm going to browse the gossamer threads for partitions advise, but the <br>> main thing I was wanting to know about was having a separate partition <br>> for 'home' and naming the large partition.<br>> <br>> The Ubuntu Myth guide had me put all myth recordings etc in something <br>> like '/var/lib' (What the hell's var/lib??). After doing that I noticed <br>> a much more user friendly guide suggesting a separate partition called <br>> /video. Can you call and mount a partition whatever you want? I plan to <br>> have all my music on the system as
well, so maybe I should have <br>> something like '/media' on a separate drive and use /media/video in Myth <br>> and /media/music etc.<br><br>What I did is have my recordings go into /var/spool/mythtv/, then I have<br>a NAS (Infrant ReadyNAS NV) exporting NFS shares that I mount<br>as /mnt/movies/, /mnt/media/mp3/, /mnt/media/images/, etc... I suppose I<br>could have streamlined it a little to have /mnt/media/movies instead,<br>but there are other issues. In any case, I'm not a big fan of having<br>mount points off of the root. And since I use Fedora, /media is<br>reserved for removable media (so that if I have an external USB drive<br>with the volume label "video", it'll mount as /media/video. So<br>using /media is out. YMMV...<br><br>> Cheers for any last minute tips/advice.<br><br>No worries!<br><br> -I<br>-- <br> _______________________________________<br> Ian Forde<br> RHCE (7,EL4), CCSE,
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