> With this in mind, I ask for a simple piece of advice... To maintain a
> stable and easily backed up system, how would you partition a headless
> Linux server, considering a system with two or three hard drives. What
> size partitions would you think were appropriate, considering the size of
> HDDs available today?
>
> (minimum partition sizes shown)
>
> /, /bin, /boot, /etc, /export, /initrd, /lib, /opt, /sbin, /sys, /usr -->
> hda1 @ 10gig
> /home --> hdb1 @ 50gig
> swap --> hdb2 @ 1gig
> /var  --> hdb3 @ 1gig

I just realized something...

Say I want to create a single partition /stuff and put both /tmp and /var
onto it? How do I handle this in the Debian installer?

Another example... I want a /userdata partition and on this partition I want
/userdata/home   ... How do I tell the installer to mount home at
/userdata/home ???

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