Newbie parbreastioning question 4356

Marten Kemp

Ah. In that case, I'd recommend:

hda1 9.5gig hda5 .5gig swap

When parbreastioning, make sure to create swap in a "secondary parbreastion" rather than a "primary parbreastion". I've found that grub sometimes gets confused if there's more than one primary parbreastion.

You don't need one, for a file server.

It will most definitely work.

You should run both a SAMBA server and an NFS server. The Debian install will install both (during the install's package selection phase, mark the "File Server" check box). Actually, NFS is installed in any case, but it will only run if you actually export at least one NFS share.

NFS is good for sharing files between *nix boxes. My experience is that it's about twice as fast as SAMBA, so it's definitely worth using even if you set up SAMBA. Since you intend to use it with some Linux machines, you'll want to use NFS.

SAMBA is what you need to share files via Windows Networking. It's what you need to set up so your Windows computers can access the network shares as if your server were another Windows computer.

Isaac Kuo