On Mon, February 23, 2009 7:18 pm, Roy Wood wrote: > The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a > compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the > CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external > drives. > > Given that the CF/IDE drive is limited in its available storage, I'd > like to make sure Freevo writes as little data there as possible. So > far, I've found the "OVERLAY_DIR" setting in local_conf.py, which > sounds as if it controls where all the fxd files are stored. I'm not > sure what else Freevo stores in /home/freevo, or how to redirect that > (if possible). > > Anyone have any advice on what to look at to minimize writing to > /home/freevo and anywhere else on the main file system? I know there > are a couple of environment variables that are relevant, too-- is > there a comprehensive list anywhere? > > Thanks... >
This is exactly the setup I've been using for several years now. I have a 2GB CF card with Ubuntu on and a 400GB disk for movies and livepause buffer. I've not had any problems with freevo writing too much data and have left the overlay directory setting alone with out issue. The great advantage of having a system like this is you can get it running then take a disk image quickly and easily by putting the CF card into a reader and dumping the entire disk to your main computer. This is especially useful when you decided to upgrade/tinker and break something :-) and then its just a matter of switching in a backup CF card or reimaging the card from the working copy. As you can guess I've had to do this on several occasions when I've tried to 'improve' the system ... Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
