William Warren wrote: > it may help if i state the server's purpose. The server is going to > host a non-profit's website and streaming audio. > There have been quite a number of discussions about this top in this group, so I'll not repeat them. Just take a few moments and search the archives for them. They'll range from "just let Disk Druid do it" to "many partitions for many purposes." You'll find some good reading and lots about the various strategies for partitioning. Once your head stops spinning from all of the different scenarios you'll find discussed sit back, take a deep breath and relax. Most of the advice about proper sizing has been rendered moot by the addition of LVM. You can change sizes on-the-fly, so you don't have to be so anal in judging the initial sizes. Barry