[TriLUG] Small business server setup

[Magnus Hedemark]

Justin Johnson wrote:

> I will be using RedHat 9.0 and setting
> up Samba and Postfix for file sharing and mail serving. All clients (other
> than my dual boot laptop) will be Windows machines on this network.

Have you considered that support for Red Hat Linux 9 is going away in a 
relatively short period of time?  I'm using it on a lot of production 
systems, and a nice chunk of my time now is being spent evaluating 
alternatives.  You're at a point in time where you can make that move 
now, before the server is built, rather than ~6 mos.

> Do  I need to make any special considerations for partitioning this machine
> when setting it up? 

Learn your way around LVM and use it.  You can thank me later.  It will 
save your butt in a number of different common scenarios.

--Magnus