I mainly have experience with setting up webservers and the Redhat default server partition setup is pretty good for that but I've had trouble with a couple things: 1. Redhat makes /var very small which isn't so bad except a few apps like to put their data in /var (like mySQL and Apache.) So if you want to leave those in the default places I'd give /var at least a couple gigs. 2. Even if you make /var big enough eventually something will happen that will make one of your log files go crazy and fill up your entire /var partition which will kill any applications (mySQL) that use it to store data. So I'd think seriously about giving /var/log it's own partition off someplace where it can't take any other processes down with it. I'd be interested to know how other people handle this stuff. I suppose a production database should usually run on it's own partition but it seems like overkill when the database is 5MB and not growing. Brady > Can someone please give me some advice partitioning a Red Hat 8.0 > install? > I have a 60Gig hard drive and want to do a server install. > EventuallyI want to add VMWare for several Windows versions. I am > confused as to the amount of space and how many partitions. > Thank you > Chuck Licha >