[mythtv-users] Need advice on FC12 HD partitioning

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Sat Jan 2 04:05:19 UTC 2010


On Jan 1, 2010, at 12:50 PM, steve wrote:

> I am setting up a new MythTV system to replace my old one (intended for HD).  The OS is Fedora Core 12. 
>  
> I’m using the wiki how to, http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora  but it gives advice on partitioning that no longer seems valid for FC12.  For example it says I should use ext3 for the format of /boot and /  but jfs for /video.  However, the format options given by the installer are
>  
> ext2
> ext3
> ext4
> physical volume (LVM)
> software RAID
> swap
> vfat
> xfs
>  
> So should I use ext4 for /boot & / and xfs for /video?  The howto says XFS is better “at least, when it’s stable…” which is kind of scary.
>  
> Also I was advised to put /video on a separate drive, so I have a 160 gb drive and a 1 tb drive.  Does this affect the recommended sizes in the howto?  Also the default partition combined both drives into one logical volume, which I don’t think I want if the point is to keep the video on a separate drive.
>  
> If someone could help me out with a recommended partitioning scheme I’d appreciate it because I know it’s important for good MythTV performance.

ext4 /boot and / here, with xfs video storage partition. Been that way for quite some time now, no problems to speak of. Most of xfs's issues are on 32-bit kernels, exacerbated by use of software raid and/or lvm (I don't use either, and I run as 64-bit kernel).

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Jarod Wilson
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