A Web server has different partition requirements than a desktop or a file server. For a machine with 26 GB of hard disk space, spread out over two drives, here’s one possible configuration. Boot is always 100 MB, unless you’re so pressed for disk space that you need to reduce it further. /var/www is where Web server files go, so you’ll want a lot of room there. Swap is usually twice the amount of RAM.
hda (12 GB)
- boot 100 MB
- /var/www 11,000 MB
- swap 500 (assuming 256 MB of RAM)
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We want you to install Ubuntu and set up the network manually entering in your fixed IP address, your correct host name and domain. In addition we will manually partition your file system. We will still create the same file system as you would get with an automated install, but in the real world you may need to understand how to create your own file system layout. After the Initial Install We will install the Ubuntu Desktop meta package (Gnome 2.18 and Xorg) as well as properly configure this to work with your particular hardware by installing the xserver­xorg­video intel package.
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TrueCrypt is a free open source on the fly encryption software. (On the fly means that all decryption is done within the memory and no decrypted data is written to the hard drive.) It works for many operating systems, including Windows and Linux (ie: Ubuntu 6.06). TrueCrypt works in two ways. It creates a TrueCrypt encrypted volume on your hard drive, which is basically a file, or it can encrypt entire hard disk partition or USB memory stick, but the latter topic is out of the scope of this guide. (Please refer to wwww.truecrypt.org for more information on how to encrypt an entire hard disk partition.) After TrueCrypt creates the encrypted volume - it can be mounted for anyone to use. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password.
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