[mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?

[John Hurliman]

What is a good suggested hard drive size for the /mnt/store buffer 
partition? I will be using a dual-tuner setup with an 80gb hard drive, 
so two recordings could be running simultaneously. What is the maximum 
size for each of the ringbuffers (is it configurable?) and are there any 
other buffers or temporary files that should be taken into account when 
creating this partition. I want to maximize hard drive space for storage 
while leaving ample space for buffering. Also, the recordings/media will 
be stored in /home/mythtv; is it worthwhile from a performance 
standpoint to make /home yet another partition? Or maybe it makes more 
sense to put the mySQL database on it's own partition and everything 
else on the / partition. Samba will be running though and I don't want 
file transfers to interrupt the recording and/or playback.

So we may be looking at /, /boot, /home, /mnt/store, quite the partition 
table!