Talk:Errand

File Systems

750 GB seems to be plenty for TV recordings (most of which we don't even watch). The largest, and fastest growing segment is for the "Videos". Having at least another 750 would be comfortable for a while for that. The rest total to less than 300 GB together.

If I were to rebuild the system with only 1 new (replacement) drive, I would add another 750 or 1TB for Videos, and move the rest to a single 500. To ensure space for everything else, I will likely put videos, games and ISOs on a 1 TB drive in a single volume (xfs/ext4). That should leave plenty of space for the system and everything else on /var. The 500 GB drive will be the boot drive and contain everything else as ext3/4.

File System Allocations

Mount Point	Device	Size	Space used (4/5/09)
/	/dev/sda1	48 GB	4.3 GB (10%)
/home	/dev/sdb1	48 GB	0.6 GB (2%)
/var	/dev/md1	875 GB	776 GB (89%)
/var/lib/mythtv	/dev/sdc1	732 GB	713 GB (98%)
Total		1,703 GB	1,494 GB

Note: /dev/sdc1 is the 750 GB drive/volume dedicated to myth TV recordings. MythTV is configured to use all but 20 GB of space.

On /var, the vast bulk of the files are part of the "Our 'Stuff'" category detailed below. The remainder consists of the data generated/used by all the other applications on the system such as MySQL and the kernel logs.

Our "Stuff"

Path	Space used (4/5/09)
Videos	335 GB (51%)
Games	130 GB (20%)
ISOs	105 GB (16%)
Ubuntu Repository Mirror (Hardy)	31 GB (5%)
Music	28 GB (4%)
Our Docs	17 GB (3%)
Downloads	8 GB (1%)
Website	< 1 GB
Total	655 GB (100%)