[mythtv-users] partioning a new drive?

Cecil Watson cwatson at linkline.com
Sun Sep 28 18:55:01 EDT 2003


Hello Neil,

Neil Konouchi wrote:

>I'm looking for a recommended partition table for 120GB drive that's
>going to be running myth and possibly doubling as a simple fileserver
>(very little load). I'm using a PVR-250 (actually, a Freestyle from
>ebay), if that makes any difference. The doc for KnoppMyth suggested 2GB
>Primary, 256 Swap, 5GB Cache, and the rest for Myth. Does this sound
>good for a non-KnoppMyth setup (RedHat 9)?
>
>Thanks for the input...
>
>Neil
>  
>
If you are going to run a server, then you'll want a big /var, hench a 
bigger / or /var has a seperate partition.  How big you ask?  Depends on 
what you are serving. 

Cecil



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