<p>Keep you os and db on a separate drive to your recordings. Ideally split os on one drive, db on another and recordings on 1 or more other drives...</p>
<p>Ext4 with journalling turned off, or other fs designed for large files is recommended - review the list it has been discussed lots.</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On 28 Jun 2010 13:00, "Simon Hobson" <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Josu Lazkano wrote:<br><br>> I have a HTPC and I want to install MythTV to watch satellite<br>
> channels, the...</font></p>
There's no "MUST" about it - you can partition it as you want, but there are some recommendations.<br>
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Personally I would do it like this :<br>
100M for /boot - not required these days, but I'm just a bit stuck in my ways !<br>
5G for / - should be waaay more than you need but it's hard to resize afterwards.<br>
Some swap<br>
The rest as an LVM PV<br>
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Within the LVM I'd then create volumes for :<br>
/var - about 5G should see you through<br>
wherever the database stores it's files (/var/lib/mysql ?)<br>
The rest for a recording store. Mount it on (for example) /store, but create a directory in it and store the recording files in /store/recordings. That way, if it fails to mount for some reason, Myth will fail to find the directory and fail, rather than filling up /<br>
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Ideally you would put your OS and database on a separate physical drive - that way you can parallelise access to the database whilst streaming recordings to/from disk.<br>
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Also, I might keep back some of the LVM initially - that way, if you find you want a bit more room for the db or /var, then there's some spare to extend the LV into.<br><font color="#888888">
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