[mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend
Dan Ritter
dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Wed Feb 6 18:30:25 UTC 2008
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:23:17PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > disk1, 40GB:
> > p1 /boot 2G ext2
> > p2 /swap 2G swap
> > p3 / 20G RAID-1 mirror
> > p4 /extra 24G ext3 store your database files here, use as
> > temp space
> >
> You don't need 2G for a /boot partition. My master backend has a 100M boot
> partition. You might need a little more if you have some kind of weird
> configuration, but otherwise you are just wasting space you could be storing TV
> programming on.
Maybe, maybe not.
By definition, he won't be storing TV programming on that drive.
Did you not read his request?
Nor do the actual numbers matter much. I would recommend that
the /extra have enough space to store three or four 4.8G DVD
images, as well as the less than 1 GB of database.
-dsr-
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