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I want install fedora core 5 on my pc as a server. I have 2 80 gig hard drives. how do I partition the master drive as what and how can share between linux and windows. Should I put the /home on the slave drive so I can share files between my windows PC's and the linux box. how do I setup the scheme in disk druid?
A fisrt approach would be keeping the OS and the data in separate partitions, in a way similar to the /svr partition in SUSE distros... even better if you can use two HDs.
This means putting everything you want to be available from your Win box in this partition/disk and the rest of your linux install in the other partition/disk.
Appart from this, it depends on what kind of settings you want.
You want perhaps take a look at chroot jailing.
For a server, definitely do some research on LVM (Logical Volume Management). http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ For things you want to share between Linux and Windows, don't put that on LVM, put it on a seperate FAT32 partition (this assuming you want to write to this shared area from both OS'es). The shared area might by your Linux HOME directory, your Windows "Documents and Settings" directory, a combination of both, or something else.
For a server, I would also recommend breaking out your major filesystems into seperate mountpoints. This would include: /boot, /, /usr, /usr/local, /tmp, /var, /opt, and /home. Other specialized filesystems as well. I even do this for my home and office desktop systems, which many would consider overkill, but I'd consider this multiple mountpoint setup a standard way of doing things for a server.
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