[mythtv-users] Partitioning

[Jake]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Donald J. Organ IV
<dorgan at donaldorgan.com> wrote:
> I am setting up my mythbox today, and I have two hard drives one is 750 GB
> and the other is 500 GB...what would be the best way to partition them
> should i put / on the 500 then /var/lib/mythtv on the 750 and /var/lib/mysql
> on the 500?

the reasoning these days is to have the database and os on a separate
drive from that which you record to. due to the inner workings of myth
we write a bit of info to the database as a recording is being written
to disk and especially with hd buffers fill up pretty fast so to avoid
contention most people put database and os on one drive and recordings
on another. separate partitions on the same drive is usually just a
waste of time from a write/seek stand point but might be useful in the
case of backing up data/upgrading/reinstalling the os.  unfortunately
there isn't one good partitioning layout to follow as it depends on
the disks you have available, how many tuners and what you will be
recording.  also, this topic has probably been thoroughly discussed
before so you should search the archives
(http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/) before you post
to this list.

hope that helps!