I'm just going into our sever closet today to strip it down, scavenge what I may and pull out two working servers from a pile of parts what once was 6 working servers.
I'm lucky enough that three of them have RAID controlleers so I'll be setting up two Compaqs with 5 20 gb drives across which one partition will be striped on one of the new servers and two on the other.
The justification for 2 on the other is to divide between storage and active use for database test enviornments. I'd rather not have one partition for both purposes.
If you're not using a RAID controller (I don't think you are), Using one of your hard drives for all OS and application data, and the other for your file server storage would keep one from cluttering up the other and, at least with smaller drives as I have at home, make for smoother operation... and that's with a Win 2000 server.
Within that, I have the OS on one logical partition and all other applications installed to a second partition - the only thing they have in common is the registry - makes rebuilding the OS partition a lot easier. Further partitioning applications and application data to two different partitions also makes your back up task a much smaller chore - just back up the data.
I'm just going into our sever closet today to strip it down, scavenge what I may and pull out two working servers from a pile of parts what once was 6 working servers.
I'm lucky enough that three of them have RAID controlleers so I'll be setting up two Compaqs with 5 20 gb drives across which one partition will be striped on one of the new servers and two on the other.
The justification for 2 on the other is to divide between storage and active use for database test enviornments. I'd rather not have one partition for both purposes.
If you're not using a RAID controller (I don't think you are), Using one of your hard drives for all OS and application data, and the other for your file server storage would keep one from cluttering up the other and, at least with smaller drives as I have at home, make for smoother operation... and that's with a Win 2000 server.
Within that, I have the OS on one logical partition and all other applications installed to a second partition - the only thing they have in common is the registry - makes rebuilding the OS partition a lot easier. Further partitioning applications and application data to two different partitions also makes your back up task a much smaller chore - just back up the data.
Can't speak to the linux/windows question though.