[mythtv-users] Partition and Filesystem choices for MythTV

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If you plan on adding more hard drives in the future, use LVM.  I use
LVM and on top of that ext3.  If you do decide to use LVM, make sure you
dont use the default physical extents because this will lead to a
maximum LVM size of 255 Gig.  I have been there.  I dont know if there
are any performance penalties though for increasing the physical extents
parameter.

Make sure whatever filesystem you choose, make it one that does not do
extensive fscks when the system does an abnormal shutdown.  It is not
fun waiting for an fsck on a 200 gig hard drive. In short dont use ext2.






On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:50, Couvrette, Jeffrey C. wrote:
> I was wondering what the best way to set up the partitions and
> filesystem for best performance with MythTV.  Would it be good to use
> a second harddrive to save video to, as it is recommended to do with
> video editting?  Is it good to at least use a separate partition to
> save video to?  What is the best filesystem to use on the partition
> where video will be saved?  And, what are some of your recommendations
> on how to set up a basic Linux filesystem, such as a separate /boot,
> /usr, /temp, /home and / or not and what sizes do you typically use? 
> If you want to answer specific to my system, I have a 2 GHz Celeron,
> 200 GB Harddrive, and 512MB memory, but I am curious what people use
> in general.
> 
> Thanks for your help and a big thanks to everyone who has contributed
> to this great project.
> 
> Jeff Couvrette
> 
> 
> 
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