On Mar 03, 2007, at 23:37, Ben Scott wrote:
On 3/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:So, at the pilot MythTV installfest today, we installed and got working a number of MythTV boxes. How much space did these installs end up consuming?Well, I installed every package from the atrpms repository that had the word "myth" in it. So, on my box: rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name} %{size}\n' | awk '/myth/ { i += $2 }; END { print i }; ' tells me that those packages consume 157617287 bytes (about 150 MB). Now, that includes several "plugins" plus a dozen or so themes, so it could be smaller. However, that does *not* include all the dependencies which support MythTV. Those will include the system stuff like glibc (which is 12 MB by itself on FC6), as well as MySQL, maybe Apache, and so on. Totaling every package on this system isn't useful, as I've got tons of crap installed.
One of my mythtv "appliance" boxes at home has about 4.5GB of software installed on it. That includes all supporting bits for all mythtv plugins, as well as a full toolchain and all build dependencies for mythtv.
I'll see if I can do a parallel install of a minimal FC6, and then yum it to add myth, to get the footprint from a minimal package set.What would we recommend as a minimal target partition size?That would depend on what we want to install. For example, do we want to include gcc, in case something comes along later that needs to be built from source?
Disk space is cheap. Set your root partition to 8-10GB and you ought to be fine, unless you go crazy installing everything under the sun on your box. You could get smaller too, but who knows what expansion you may want to do in the future? Think of it this way: you're going to have a ton of disk space for your recordings, right? An extra 5GB possibly sitting unused is hardly something to worry about. If you're at the point where you need that extra 5GB for the last 40 minutes of some show (HDTV, of course), you already should have bought more disk.
-- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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