[mythtv-users] Suggestions for a partition structure

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:05 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> Given how prices have come down you might also consider getting a third
> small drive (40 - 60G possibly an SSD) and using that for the OS.

Definitely.  For ~$80 you can get a 120GB SSD these days.  Not a
screaming fast SSD, but it'll beat the pants of any traditional HD for
random I/O.

> For video, xfs seems to be the correct choicel It handles very large files
> better than anything else,

For most mythtv systems, the choice of filesystem isn't likely to be a
significant factor in actual perceived performance.

> As to partitioning, I have partitions for '/', /home, /usr/local, and /var.

My approach is to have the absolute minimum number of partitions.  I
usually just have /, /boot (tiny), and swap.  I would get an SSD and
set these up on there, then make a /u/mythtv1 and /u/mythtv2, mount
the 500GB drives there, and set them up in a storage group.

Eric