<div dir="ltr">Can you just use the "Extra Disk Space" parameter found on the frontend Setup->TV Settings->General. But I don't know how this would work with multiple storage groups. This parameter should probably move to the setup of the storage groups, but thats not the question at hand.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Edmund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edmund.1@dial.pipex.com">edmund.1@dial.pipex.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br><br>I currently have two discs for myth storage, another for storing PC<br>backups (using samba) and a fourth for other media and file sharing. I<br>
am considering changing the configuration to RAID5. I know I will lose<br>25% but I am happy with that for the redundancy (and I can always add a<br>fifth disc later).<br><br>My problem is that I think mythtv will keep filling the array until it<br>
is full. I need some spare space to be reserved for the other two<br>applications.<br><br>I have googled a bit on setting a maximum size for a folder and there<br>are a couple of things such as debian quota/quotatool and something else<br>
where a filesystem is mounted inside a file. This is all above my head.<br><br>I was thinking that if I partitioned each disc 60%/40% and then combined<br>each of the 60%s into a raid 5 for the myth storage and the same for<br>
each of the 40% that would work. However I have to decide now on the<br>split as I think it would be too hard to change in the future.<br><br>Has anyone with raid 5 array shared its use with other things?<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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