[mythtv-users] LVM Recommendations
James L. Paul
james at mauibay.net
Mon Dec 8 18:12:35 EST 2003
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On Monday 08 December 2003 05:40, Stuart Felenstein wrote:
> Setting up (for the first time), Mythtv on a Redhat 9 system. I have one
> 80 gig hard disk currently. I want to use LVM and wonder if someone can
> recommended "logical volume sizes" that would work well. I'm still in the
> Linux learning stage. Also, are there any particular group names I should
> use for Myth, outside of ./tmp /home , etc.?
As for sizes, bigger is better. I use my LVM volume only for the video
directory, so it's easily resizeable when I want to add storage. So, as
usual, size doesn't matter. Except for bigger being better. :)
Where you mount it also doesn't matter much. I chose /opt/myth but you can
stick it wherever makes sense to you. You can put it wherever you want and
just tell myth where that is. Creating an /opt directory for application
specific storage and mounts is not uncommon. All that really matters is that
_you_ know how your filesystem is laid out.
Another tip... I used an ext3 filesystem with largefile support, since there
will be very few, if any, small files on it I didn't see reason to take up
space with more inodes than I'll ever need. Also I set the percentage of
reserved blocks to zero. Since root doesn't need any system space on it I see
no reason to waste the default 5% space reserved for root.
So I did smething like:
mkfs.ext3 -m 0 -T largefile /dev/myth/opt
>
> Thank you,
> Stuart
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