[mythtv-users] Partitioning Recomendations

[David Watkins]

On 25/06/07, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am about to rebuild my Mythtv/Ubuntu Feisty box.  Previously I had
> the whole thing in one big partition, but I want to do it properly
> this time.  Its on a 250GB (seems to give me around 232GB formated I
> was using lvm/xfs).
>
> I think the partitions I want are:-
>
> swap 512MB (I have 512MB memory)
> / 10GB xfs
> /boot 256MB
> /myth xfs rest
> Does this make sense or should I do /usr, /home, /var... seperate?


I'd use ext3 for root.

My personal choice was.

swap 256MB
/   10GB ext3  (42% used)
/boot 100MB ext3 (16% used)
/home 3GB ext3 (18% used)
/var 2GB ext3 (15% used)
/mythtv xfs (the rest)