Hi,
I have just started building a music server running Ubuntu 8.04(LTS).
Everything seems to be going OK but I wanted to know how people set up
their disc partitions. I have a single 1Tb disc. Is it good practice to
create a small partition for the OS and then a large one for my
music library?
I have pulled the DOM out and replaced it with a 2,5 160 GB IDE HDD -
to gain speed.
I'm booting from a USB stick with FreeNAS on.
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Kim.T
HP T5700 Thin Client running FreeNAS + SqueezeCenter 7.4.1
Synology DS-106j / Samsung SpinPoint T133 HD400LD 400 GB - now with 92
mm fan
TViX HD
It is good practice to separate OS and data on different partitions.
When you decide to wipe your OS you can do so without worrying much
about your data (carefulness is always needed though) and furthermore
you can mount your music partition readonly, which is somewhat more
secure than read/write
maggior wrote:
partition as small as you can. I have my OS (Open SuSE 11.0) running on
an 8GB flash drive and it is only 1/3 full. I don't have all of the
desktop stuff installed though. For a server, you don't really need it.
While I agree that servers don't need all the desktop or even
I generally recommend having about 20GB for the root filesystem, and the
rest can be for /home. 20GB is more than enough for Ubuntu's core, and
you can keep your music in /home.
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SuperQ
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like others have noted, believe in strictly separating OS and data.
ideally on a separate drive, but certainly separate partitions. 500G for
music certainly sound sufficient, it takes a lot of music buying to get
there.
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pablolie
...pablo
Server: Shuttle X27D - Ubuntu 9.04 - SBS 7.4.1
For the VortexBox music server/NAS Linux distro we use 20GB for / and
put the rest on /storage. I recommend formatting /storage partition with
XFS or EXT4 there files systems work much better for large storage
volumes then the default ext3.
If your setting up a new system you may want to take a
jimbres;483182 Wrote:
To those of you who upgraded to 9.10 from an earlier version of Ubuntu:
how did you expect to benefit from this? After all, 9.04 will be
supported until late next year.
Just a different upgrade/maintenance philosophy. A common strategy in
the open-source world is to
jimbres;483182 Wrote:
I've been running Slimserver / Squeezecenter / Squeezebox Server under
Ubuntu since the days of Breezy Badger (5.10), I've learned the hard
way that it's unwise to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu release until it's
been out for a couple of months.
SBC is running like
Does anyone perhaps have a script (bash, perl, python or whatever) or
other tool that can do or be modified to do the following:
- traverse a directory tree
- for each folder pick any flac file in the folder
- get the Artist and Album name
- compare the directory name against artist - album
- if
This is the type of stuff that is pretty trivial in a smart DB-driven
media management program. I'm not sure of the complete list of apps
that provide this, but certainly one that several of us forum members
use does the trick. Try the free Media Jukebox by J. River. Use the
Library
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