Partitioning hard drives
Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
I've got two machines, one's a desktop and the others a server, I'm
getting broadband shortly and would like the server to host a web server
and mail server. It will also be running a firewall so that the desktop
can connect to the broadband connection via the server.
The server has two IDE drives (60Gb & 40Gb) and four SCSI drives (73Gb)
in it; I intend to use RAID with the SCSI drives but haven't decided on
a mode yet, although I'm leaning to 01 (stripping and replication).
I've read that it's best to put certain volumes in their own partitions,
i.e. the mail spool, to limit certain types of attack, but I'm still
unsure of how to go about distributing the partitions over all the disks.
The server is a dual PIII 500Mhz with 750Mb RAM running on a Chaintech
6BDU with a zero channel Adaptec ARO-1130U2 RAIDPort III card. This box
was running Woody from a single 9.1Gb SCSI drive, before I added the
73Gb drives and the RAID card.
I'm intending on putting Sarge on it and don't mind reinstalling a
number of times to try things out.
So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by the
Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers disks...?
Thanks,
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