Also don't use ext3 if you're planning to have big files. Use jfs or xfs or reiser. BIG performance difference.
On 10/12/05, John Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps it is the partitioning, as I havent found any hd errors and havent > touched fstab. > I will try again with a different scheme. I believe I was using: > /boo t 100Mb ext3 > / 10000Mb ext3 > swap 1024Mb swap > /video 2xxxxMb LVM > LVM 2xxxxMb ext3 > > This is what I got out of the guide anyhow. I will probably try again with > the /video partition being nonLVM on a second harddrive in case that makes a > difference. > > J > > > On 10/11/05, Adam Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I personally use FC4, and originally used that guide last year to set > > up my PVR, so I'd say stick with that basic setup. Your errors are > > related to filesystem stuff, and have nothing (that I can see, > > anyways) to do with ivtv. It looks like you HD might be going bad, or > > you've messes up partitioning or your /etc/fstab file. > > > > On 10/11/05, J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been wrestling this for about a week and I am very new to linux. > > > This is the third distro I've tried overall, but also the most > > > successful so far. Hardware: Shuttle XPC, venice core amd 64, > > > hauppage pvr 500, Fedora Core 4. > > > After a few hiccups with the Fedora Core 4 - 64 version I decided to go > > > with the i386 install to see if it would go more smoothly. > > > > > > > > > I followed the mythtv fedora core 4 guide up until the point after > > > installing the ivtv using yum and after restarting I would get an "fsck > > > error no directory /dev/video/video". > > > So I went through the guide and everything was all installed neat and > > > clean, and installed the ivtv drivers following the ivtv wiki howto for > > > driver version 4. > > > > > > Now I receive an "e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting..." error on boot. > > > I cannot bypass the error using single or 1 mode, and I've used the > > > rescue cd image to log into the terminal to edit things. Prior to > > > rebooting I had used the following lines in my modprobe.conf: > > > #ivtv > > > alias char-major-81 videodev > > > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv > > > > > > I am out of ideas as to how to make this bootable again, and have > > > scoured quite a bit with no results. If anyone can either point me in a > > > direction or make any suggestions distribution-wise I would greatly > > > appreciate it. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ivtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
