On 30-Apr-2009, at 09:58, Jon wrote:
I want to create a new debian Linux based postfix system to sit in front of Exchange 2003 and act only as an SMTP gateway for starters and possibly do some filtering down the road. There seems to be less than 65,000 connections per day coming at Exchange and I'm thinking to start with one ~16 GB disk for the system.
You can find a 16GB disk? Disk space is cheap.
I've read bits in the list archives that /var/queue and /var/log might be advisable to live on separate partitions. Digging around more and on the list and Internet I'm left wondering how to go about carving up an appropriate disk layout or calculate how much I might be safe to allocate for 'queue' for a new (low volume?) system? Is there any wisdom anyone would be willing to share, pro's con's, etc. to help proceed?
With the size of disks partitioning is largely pointless, all that is likely to happen is that you end up screwing yourself in some unexpected way and have to jump through hoops to get around whatever mistake there is in your partition scheme.
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