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QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 228

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Restrict folder size

I couldn't decide if this should be here or in the multimedia section...please move if it shouldn't be here...

I have done some Google(tm) searching on this subject, but haven't found anything for linux. My MythTV server just got 'repaired' (read severly downgraded) and I lost my big boot drive. My origional partitioning was:

sda1 - 20GB boot
sda2 - 30GB home
sda3 - 110GB dedicated to mythtv recordings
md0 - 1.5TB of general storage

Basically, I've lost my capasity to have a seperate "sda3" partition in my system. I've put the recordings onto the md0, but I really really don't want the recordings taking over ALL of my storage space, which mythtv will do. I have not been able to find a way to have Mythtv set an overall storage size, so I'm looking for a way to have the OS restrict the size of the folder that the recordings are in. Any ideas?

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Restrict folder size

Play with disk quotas.

(or quotas might not even be needed, just create a virtual filesystem image and mount that in a proper location so mythtv would use that, see the first section of the second google result)

Last edited by lucke (2008-04-08 01:32:25)

QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 228

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Re: Restrict folder size

Thank you! That would actually work. Just do a dd of sda3 (the old one) into a file. Then just mount the file to my mythtv folder. I may have an overhead problem with a PIII running a mounted file on a software RAID 5 array, but it's so worth a shot.

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot