[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Aug 16 04:34:13 UTC 2012


On 8/16/2012 00:20, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have just moved from many years of a mythtv backend/frontend combo
>> so a new setup which has a dedicated backend + multiple frontends.
>> I've reused the old combo disk in one of the frontends which is a
>> 1.5TB disk. But I'm thinking that must be a total waste. How much disk
>> space does a frontend-only machine need? Surely it only needs a small
>> disk of 20GB or less to run the O/S and MythTV? Does anything else
>> ever get stored on a frontend?
>
> You are right, but you could perhaps use it to store videos or
> something (query: can you use a slave backend simply for a video
> storage group?)

Slave backends are expected to have tuners. If you just want access to 
storage, use mythmediaserver.  Better to simply put the drive in the 
master backend, and let the dedicated frontend be turned on and off at will.


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