Some partitioning Advice.......

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From: "markus" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:24:29 -0400

In setting up SBS2003 and using exchange, what's the recommended
partitioning scheme?
I have a 300G drive.
I've heard conflicting advice...

20 partition for the system? plus
50G partition for the exchange databases? plus
the rest of the disk for data?

Install new programs (antivirus, office, etc on the 20G system partition?
or install them on the larger data partition?
is 50G for exchange too big? There is a 16G limit for exchange standard, is
there not?

Is having a seperate partition for exchange really worth while?

How do you normally do it on a fairly large disk??

thanks

.

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