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

[Micah Morton]

Now if they were on separate drivers totally, that would make a difference
right?  And how much is gained from having multiple drives?

--Micah Morton
--Linux Network Test Engineer
--Intel Corp

> Depends on how much video you want to store :).  For performance, you
> might want to make /home its own partition, especially if the box is
> being used for other things as well.
>
> Although I'm not sure why you'd want to separate /mnt/store from the
> recordings, since you then the drive has to seek out to a different
> partition to write out buffers (leading to quite a bit of
> head-banging).. Better off making it one place..
>
> Just my 2 bits.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Hurliman
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:34 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?
>
>
> 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!
>
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