[mythtv-users] Starting from scratch ..yet again. Ubunto to Kubuntu for me I think.

[Damian Surr]

Thanks,

Wikipedia provided an answer for me too. I should have gone there first.

Cheers
Damian

Bert Van Kets wrote:
> NFS is Network File System and is the Linux way to share files on a network.
>
> Damian Surr wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for that you two,
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance, but what does 'I export some of those partitions 
>> via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions)' mean? Is 
>> that just a technical way of saying that you share those drives on the 
>> network or something that I should know about before I go ahead?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Damian
>>
>> James Warden wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> you can partition the way you like, mount from any mount point you like.
>>>
>>> I have the following partitioning on my small B/E (i.e. single HD of 
>>> 300G, no raid system, that will come later during the big upgrade I am 
>>> planning) :
>>>
>>> - / : ext3, 7G (main OS + mysql)
>>> - /home : ext3, 5G  (a bit too big, I basically do nothing here, 1G 
>>> would be enough after all but who knows ... )
>>> - /multimedia/mythtv : xfs, 140G (mythtv stuff only, I don't keep 
>>> recordings too long so I never really fill up the partition)
>>> - /multimedia/private : xfs, 130G (I put some music, pics, etc)
>>> - /diskless/<client_type> : ext3, 5G (I have different client types, 
>>> but one partition for all)
>>> and a bit of swap (256MB)
>>>
>>> I export some of those partitions via NFS (netboot partitions and 
>>> multimedia data partitions).
>>>
>>> It works very nicely for me, never failed me after ~ 6 months. I will 
>>> soon build a multi-purpose server (the big thing with multiple HDs, 
>>> etc, that will serve many clients, not only myth FEs). Or maybe I will 
>>> decentralize and have 2-3 servers instead with a dedicated one for 
>>> mythtv. Money (= time) will tell ...
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>> */Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>     On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:43 +0100, Damian Surr wrote:
>>>     > I'm going to browse the gossamer threads for partitions advise,
>>>     but the
>>>     > main thing I was wanting to know about was having a separate
>>>     partition
>>>     > for 'home' and naming the large partition.
>>>     >
>>>     > The Ubuntu Myth guide had me put all myth recordings etc in
>>>     something
>>>     > like '/var/lib' (What the hell's var/lib??). After doing that I
>>>     noticed
>>>     > a much more user friendly guide suggesting a separate partition
>>>     called
>>>     > /video. Can you call and mount a partition whatever you want? I
>>>     plan to
>>>     > have all my music on the system as well, so maybe I should have
>>>     > something like '/media' on a separate drive and use /media/video
>>>     in Myth
>>>     > and /media/music etc.
>>>
>>>     What I did is have my recordings go into /var/spool/mythtv/, then
>>>     I have
>>>     a NAS (Infrant ReadyNAS NV) exporting NFS shares that I mount
>>>     as /mnt/movies/, /mnt/media/mp3/, /mnt/media/images/, etc... I
>>>     suppose I
>>>     could have streamlined it a little to have /mnt/media/movies instead,
>>>     but there are other issues. In any case, I'm not a big fan of having
>>>     mount points off of the root. And since I use Fedora, /media is
>>>     reserved for removable media (so that if I have an external USB drive
>>>     with the volume label "video", it'll mount as /media/video. So
>>>     using /media is out. YMMV...
>>>
>>>     > Cheers for any last minute tips/advice.
>>>
>>>     No worries!
>>>
>>>     -I
>>>     -- 
>>>     _______________________________________
>>>     Ian Forde
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