Re: [TriLUG] Small business server setup

[Chris Bullock]

you also need a large /var partition for mail and if you are using IMAP in the future large /home dir if you expect a lot of saved emails Well my initial partitioning was going to start as follows(40GB drive) /boot 100MB / 10GB /home rest of drive /swap 1024MB (machine has 512MB RAM) I guess you are indicating I need to make a seperate /var partition? yes, you can use the / partition for this, again you need a general idea of what email volumes you are expecting.  With < 15 people I would say a 5GB partition would be suitable then again I don't know what you email volumes are gonna be. What size would you suggest? not real sure, depends on the volume of email you are predicting.  Email lives in /var until the user picks it up. I also forgot to ask on which partition I would want to create the directories to share? Or should these actually be their own partitions? Samba lives on /home , so you would have a /home/samba/work directory and a /home/samba/finance directory, by making directories instead of partitions you could create a /home/samba/jj in the future.  Some people choose to partition but I let the system use the existing space. If you are not an avid Samba admin, I would strongly recommend using SWAT.  It is a great tool for beginners and even advanced users.  hope that helps --cgb

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