> See from a knoppmyth/pvr-500 howto that I should have partitions for /cache > and /myth: > > select "New, Primary" with the size of your / partition > arrow down to free space > select "New, Logical" enter 500 > arrow over to type and select swap from the list > arrow down to free space again > select "New, Logical" enter 10gb for /cache > arrow down to free space once more > select "New, Logical" and use the rest of the space for /myth > > WAs a little surprised that the howto recommends using ext2: > > > mke2fs -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L cache -M /cache /dev/hdaX > > > mke2fs -j -O sparse_super -m0 -i8000000 -L myth -M /myth /dev/hdaX > > Is this really the most efficient filesystem type for the purpose?
A quick glance at the man page shows that mle2fs -j means create a ext3 journalling file system. Don't nkow why /cache would be ext2, though. Also, note that xfs is usually recommended for the recordings partitions as it is able to delete large files quickly. Regards, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
