Partitioning scheme for a dedicated mythtv frontend

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drvik · Post by **drvik** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:50 am

Hi guys,

Dedicated mythtv frontend only, with Atom/ION2 + 2Gb RAM running off a 60Gb Vertex 2.... Now that EXT4 is matured I plan on using it for /.... is there any reason to use a fancy partitioning scheme for such a specific application... here's what I'm thinking...

/boot 100Mb EXT2
swap 2Gb
/ 58Gb(ish) EXT4

My only real hesitation is in the past I have filled up / due to /var/log overfilling, so I would possibly place /var/log on it's own partition... also, I'm tempted to place /tmp into RAM.... I don't see the point in having /usr/src/ and /usr/portage on a separate partition (I used to use reiser3/4 for the speedup) now that EXT4 is around....

Any thoughts???

Cheers,

drvik

AaronPPC · Post by **AaronPPC** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:37 am

Your /var/log problem can be solved with logrotate.

drvik · Post by **drvik** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:11 am

Not always... certainly my backend filled up "/" because my recording folder became full and the log were full of "No space left on device" type of messages from myth....

But I understand your point....

Cheers,

drvik

Post by Hu » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:18 pm

I would give MythTV a dedicated filesystem for it to store recordings, for the same reason that /home ought to be separate from /.

drvik · Post by **drvik** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:55 am

Thanks, but this is for a dedicated frontend, so no recordings are stored locally... it's a shame decent SSDs are not made in a 16Gb size as I think that would be plenty for this application....

I gather by the lack of responses that it really doesn't matter if / is one whole partition, including /home etc....

Raptor85 · Post by **Raptor85** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:16 am

dedicated frontend?

honestly, in this case, since you'll be storing nothing locally, I would just do one partition, maybe 2 if you need a swap (3 if you're REALLY picky about boot being separate, but for a box like this there's not much point)

You can also scale down how much logging you're doing if you have /var/log problems, use logrotate or any of the other such tools, or just make a cron job that wipes the log folder daily.

drvik · Post by **drvik** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:46 am

I've created a 100Mb /boot, a 4Gb swap and a 16Gb root partition... I've left room unpartitioned just in case...

drvik · Post by **drvik** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:51 am

I've created a 100Mb /boot, a 4Gb swap and a 16Gb root partition... I've left room unpartitioned just in case...

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:06 am

I have a dedicated MythTV frontend. I'm not storing any recordings on frontend, thus I just created a single filesystem without partitioning. Intend to go PXE boot ... once I have time for this.