[mythtv-users] Filesystem type / partition layout advice?

[John Drescher]

> I'm having trouble finding a good, up-to-date answer for what sort of
> filesystem should be used, and how many partitions?
>
On my booting drives (more than 1 bootable drive) I have 1 partition
for boot, 1 for swap, 1 for / and the rest of the data a single
physical disk LVM. On the non-bootable drives I have only the single
physical disk LVMs. I would never use an LVM to span multiple drives.
Multiple RAIDs are fine but not multiple hard drives.

On all systems other than /boot I now use ext4. It has the large file
performance of xfs (no need for slow delete workarounds) without the
small file penalty that xfs has. It also can be shrunk which is
important for me on the LVMs since I grow an shrink volumes from time
to time.

John