[mythtv-users] Starting from scratch ..yet again. Ubunto to Kubuntu for me I think.

[James Warden]

Hi Damian,

Sorry to have confused you. There's nothing special, the 'netboot' partition (called /diskless/<whatever> in my setup) is used by diskless clients, it is the root partition that these clients nfs-mount after PXE boot. The 'multimedia data' partition is also an NFS share mounted by whatever NFS client allowed to do so on my network.

J.

Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote: Thanks for that you two,

Excuse my ignorance, but what does 'I export some of those partitions 
via NFS (netboot partitions and multimedia data partitions)' mean? Is 
that just a technical way of saying that you share those drives on the 
network or something that I should know about before I go ahead?

Thanks
Damian

James Warden wrote:
> you can partition the way you like, mount from any mount point you like.
>
> I have the following partitioning on my small B/E (i.e. single HD of 
> 300G, no raid system, that will come later during the big upgrade I am 
> planning) :
>
> - / : ext3, 7G (main OS + mysql)
> - /home : ext3, 5G  (a bit too big, I basically do nothing here, 1G 
> would be enough after all but who knows ... )
> - /multimedia/mythtv : xfs, 140G (mythtv stuff only, I don't keep 
> recordings too long so I never really fill up the partition)
> - /multimedia/private : xfs, 130G (I put some music, pics, etc)
> - /diskless/ : ext3, 5G (I have different client types, 
> but one partition for all)
> and a bit of swap (256MB)
>
> I export some of those partitions via NFS (netboot partitions and 
> multimedia data partitions).
>
> It works very nicely for me, never failed me after ~ 6 months. I will 
> soon build a multi-purpose server (the big thing with multiple HDs, 
> etc, that will serve many clients, not only myth FEs). Or maybe I will 
> decentralize and have 2-3 servers instead with a dedicated one for 
> mythtv. Money (= time) will tell ...
>
> J.
>
> */Ian Forde /* wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:43 +0100, Damian Surr wrote:
>     > I'm going to browse the gossamer threads for partitions advise,
>     but the
>     > main thing I was wanting to know about was having a separate
>     partition
>     > for 'home' and naming the large partition.
>     >
>     > The Ubuntu Myth guide had me put all myth recordings etc in
>     something
>     > like '/var/lib' (What the hell's var/lib??). After doing that I
>     noticed
>     > a much more user friendly guide suggesting a separate partition
>     called
>     > /video. Can you call and mount a partition whatever you want? I
>     plan to
>     > have all my music on the system as well, so maybe I should have
>     > something like '/media' on a separate drive and use /media/video
>     in Myth
>     > and /media/music etc.
>
>     What I did is have my recordings go into /var/spool/mythtv/, then
>     I have
>     a NAS (Infrant ReadyNAS NV) exporting NFS shares that I mount
>     as /mnt/movies/, /mnt/media/mp3/, /mnt/media/images/, etc... I
>     suppose I
>     could have streamlined it a little to have /mnt/media/movies instead,
>     but there are other issues. In any case, I'm not a big fan of having
>     mount points off of the root. And since I use Fedora, /media is
>     reserved for removable media (so that if I have an external USB drive
>     with the volume label "video", it'll mount as /media/video. So
>     using /media is out. YMMV...
>
>     > Cheers for any last minute tips/advice.
>
>     No worries!
>
>     -I
>     -- 
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>     Ian Forde
>     RHCE (7,EL4), CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
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