Hi Damian,<br><br>Sorry to have confused you. There's nothing special, the 'netboot' partition (called /diskless/<whatever> in my setup) is used by diskless clients, it is the root partition that these clients nfs-mount after PXE boot. The 'multimedia data' partition is also an NFS share mounted by whatever NFS client allowed to do so on my network.<br><br>J.<br><br><b><i>Damian Surr <damian@gingermagic.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Thanks for that you two,<br><br>Excuse my ignorance, but what does 'I export some of those partitions <br>via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions)' mean? Is <br>that just a technical way of saying that you share those drives on the <br>network or something that I should know about before I go ahead?<br><br>Thanks<br>Damian<br><br>James Warden wrote:<br>> 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 <br>> 300G, no raid system, that will come later during the big upgrade I am <br>> planning) :<br>><br>> - / : ext3, 7G (main OS + mysql)<br>> - /home : ext3, 5G (a bit too big, I basically do nothing here, 1G <br>> would be enough after all but who knows ... )<br>> - /multimedia/mythtv : xfs, 140G (mythtv stuff only, I don't keep <br>> 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, <br>> 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 <br>> multimedia data partitions).<br>><br>> It works very nicely for me, never failed me after ~ 6 months. I will <br>> soon build a
multi-purpose server (the big thing with multiple HDs, <br>> etc, that will serve many clients, not only myth FEs). Or maybe I will <br>> decentralize and have 2-3 servers instead with a dedicated one for <br>> mythtv. Money (= time) will tell ...<br>><br>> J.<br>><br>> */Ian Forde <ian@duckland.org>/* wrote:<br>><br>> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:43 +0100, Damian Surr wrote:<br>> > I'm going to browse the gossamer threads for partitions advise,<br>> but the<br>> > main thing I was wanting to know about was having a separate<br>> partition<br>> > for 'home' and naming the large partition.<br>> ><br>> > The Ubuntu Myth guide had me put all myth recordings etc in<br>> something<br>> > like '/var/lib' (What the hell's var/lib??). After doing that I<br>> noticed<br>> > a much more user friendly guide suggesting a separate partition<br>>
called<br>> > /video. Can you call and mount a partition whatever you want? I<br>> 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<br>> in Myth<br>> > and /media/music etc.<br>><br>> What I did is have my recordings go into /var/spool/mythtv/, then<br>> 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<br>> 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
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