[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/16/2012 00:36, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 16/08/2012 1:40 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>> I have just moved from many years of a mythtv backend/frontend combo
>> so a new setup which has a dedicated backend + multiple frontends.
>> I've reused the old combo disk in one of the frontends which is a
>> 1.5TB disk. But I'm thinking that must be a total waste. How much disk
>> space does a frontend-only machine need? Surely it only needs a small
>> disk of 20GB or less to run the O/S and MythTV? Does anything else
>> ever get stored on a frontend?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Phill
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> My frontend (which are also slave backends for commflag and transcoding)
> quite happily sit on a 6GB Partition.  They run a standard uBuntu /
> Mythbuntu install with nothing trimmed down.   I netboot them with iSCSI
> (so no actual hdd in the frontends, but still works like a machine with
> a HDD)

Slave backends are expected to have tuners. If you just want to run the 
jobqueue, use mythjobqueue.