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Can anyone help me on the following question. Thks alot.

Suggest a partitioning scheme for a stand-alone unix server
with two 40GB discs supporting 100 users.

Each partition should be identified with the following information:

1. The partition name (either a mount point or swap).
2. The partition size.
3. The partition location (disk and order on disk).

You should justify your proposed scheme.

You should list any assumptions you make in designing your scheme.
E.g. you should list any key services that the server will provide (web,
mail, etc.)

hi
this is higly related with the UNIX services you want to run and the directories they use.
for example
I will set up a router (this machine will also has user accounts and a ssh server on it ) with OpenBSD and I will slice up my disks for this purpose.
So the /home partition is large (for user accounts ) and there is also a second hdd for user downloads
In slackware linux the apache web server holds the web pages in /var/www, so the disk partition that holds /var must be large.
Or you can use /usr/local for your web server (like my FreeBSD box) so this partition must be large.
But, for a system that holds user accounts you should set the size of your /home (or /usr/home in FreeBSD) partitons quite large. And don't forget use disk quotas for users.
You can rea the OpenBSD's "setting up disks" section. You may make a sense.Visit :

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Disks

Bye....

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