[mythtv-users] Partition and Filesystem choices for MythTV

[Douglas Hardison]

Just as a note, RedHat 9 can be installed with reiserfs during the install
by issuing "linux reiserfs" at the boot: prompt ( without the quotes ).
You'll then have the option to format partitions as reiserfs during the
partitioning section of the install.


dhardison

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Partition and Filesystem choices for MythTV


I don't think there are performance problems with larger extent sizes in
LVM.  If you do use LVM, I would make:

/usr
/var
/var/log
/var/video (or wherever you want your mythTV data to reside
/home
/tmp

I would make / a real primary partition and let /boot reside on that as
well.  I would also make a swap a real partition as well, although you
can make LVM swap partitions as needed.

You can use fewer, but with LVM there is no real disadvantage to
creating extra partitions except the time you spend during the install. 
RH9 doesn't  let you use reiserfs during the install (IIRC), but you
could use it on /var/video and set up that partition after install is
done.  Anyway, I would use ext3 or another journaled filesystem for all
of the above except maybe / which you might want to use ext2 on.  



On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 20:50, cmisip wrote:
> If you plan on adding more hard drives in the future, use LVM.  I use
> LVM and on top of that ext3.  If you do decide to use LVM, make sure you
> dont use the default physical extents because this will lead to a
> maximum LVM size of 255 Gig.  I have been there.  I dont know if there
> are any performance penalties though for increasing the physical extents
> parameter.
> 
> Make sure whatever filesystem you choose, make it one that does not do
> extensive fscks when the system does an abnormal shutdown.  It is not
> fun waiting for an fsck on a 200 gig hard drive. In short dont use ext2.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:50, Couvrette, Jeffrey C. wrote:
> > I was wondering what the best way to set up the partitions and
> > filesystem for best performance with MythTV.  Would it be good to use
> > a second harddrive to save video to, as it is recommended to do with
> > video editting?  Is it good to at least use a separate partition to
> > save video to?  What is the best filesystem to use on the partition
> > where video will be saved?  And, what are some of your recommendations
> > on how to set up a basic Linux filesystem, such as a separate /boot,
> > /usr, /temp, /home and / or not and what sizes do you typically use? 
> > If you want to answer specific to my system, I have a 2 GHz Celeron,
> > 200 GB Harddrive, and 512MB memory, but I am curious what people use
> > in general.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help and a big thanks to everyone who has contributed
> > to this great project.
> > 
> > Jeff Couvrette
> > 
> > 
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