[mythtv-users] Before I install - adding hard drives

[Darren Black]

On 1/14/06, Dorsey Graphics <info at dorseygraphics.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
>    I'm attempting a Myth Install today. I'll be installing it on an
> 80GB IDE drive, and I also have a 160GB Serial ATA drive on the system.
>
>    I want to add 2 more 120GB serial ATA drives later on (I'll be
> taking them out of my old Beyond TV box when I get the Myth box up
> and running). Will this be difficult? I'll be running Redhat FC4
> (downloaded last night), and an intel mobo with SATA onboard.
>
>    I am a total Linux newbie (I built and ran Myth about 2 years ago
> for a while, but some dependencies broke and I couldn't fix it, so I
> switched to BeyondTV). I'm VERY VERY much a GUI person (if that makes
> a difference).


[Darth Vader]
(heavy breathing through mask)
Soon you will feel the power of the command line.
[/Darth Vader]

The harddisks shouldn't be an issue as far as I know, but it may be
worthwhile using LVM when partitioning your media storage partitions,
depending on how you want to 'add' the extra space. (ie. I have a directory
on my system called /video, which utilises about 50Gb from one of my disks
and the whole 250Gb of the other. I achieved this using LVM. It also allows
me to add extra space to the volume at a later date if I need to.
Unfortunately, JFS doesn't allow you to shrink volumes and that's what I am
using. Other formats do allow for this though.)

/drdaz
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