Officemax had a deal on a 300 Gigabyte Baracuda drive this week, so I grabbed one to replace my secondary drive on the Windows machine (which was a 160 GB Maxtor). Then, the 160 went into the MythTV box, to serve as a storage place for ripped DVDs or movies I record from TV but don’t want to erase for a while (if at all).
The default structure used by Knoppmyth is to make four partitions on the primary drive (hda), with the fourth being the /myth directory and using the vast majority of the space on the disk. With a 250 GB drive, I ended up with 160 GB used within six weeks of starting this project. So, I added the 160 GB drive as /myth/video and away we go.
New partition structure:
hda1 – / (user files and operating system)
hda2 – swap
hda3 – /cache (for live tv)
hda4 – /myth
hdb1 – /myth/video
And now I’ve got over forty gigs used of the hdb1 partition, and down to less than half used on the hda4 partition.
When I bought some blank CDs this week, I ended up with a free 128 MB USB thumbdrive. Anyone want it? What the heck will I do with this thing? I’ve already got three SD cards of varying capacity, an old CompactFlash microdrive (340 MB), and a spare 128 MB memory stick. Like I need more solid-state storage?
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[…] Remember the new hard drive? Well, I decided to stop the separation of the various media files between hda4 and hdb1, because it causes issues that require me to manually move recorded movies to the video share in order to free up the space on hda4 (which was the original purpose of the extra drive). So, I spent a few hours today moving 140 gigs of files around from drive to drive, so as to get the system up and running using the Logical Volume Manager system. Now that it’s up, it’s sweet and future maintenance will be crazy easy. […]