The more spindles the better, but if you are limited to 2 drives not much you can do. The mirror is the way I would go too, but I would make a seperate /var and /mqueues directory, the latter does little use without a seperate drive though. Check where Cyrus in SuSE Email server dumps its DB, I would move that someplace. I also would partition everything with ReiserFS and mount this with notail,noatime,auto in your fstab. This is what I use on Linux based Mail Server at Sendmail as a tune, drop these into /etc/init.d/boot.local echo 262144 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max echo 262144 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max ulimit -n 262144 echo 4096 >> /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog echo 2000000 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo '16384 65535' >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max Regards, Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: Manral To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: [SLE] partitions in mail server Dear friends what sort of partitions shld one have in order to have the best working of email server . I have a 2*36.4 Gb hdd and am planning to have raid 1so effectively i have 36.4 Gb .. can some one tell me the customed partitions that i should make keeping in view the backup and disaster recovery . regards raj .. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com