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

[Michael Watson]

On 16/08/2012 1:40 PM, Phill Edwards 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?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
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>
My frontend (which are also slave backends for commflag and transcoding) 
quite happily sit on a 6GB Partition.  They run a standard uBuntu / 
Mythbuntu install with nothing trimmed down.   I netboot them with iSCSI 
(so no actual hdd in the frontends, but still works like a machine with 
a HDD)

Regards,
Michael