How do I divide 4 HDDs between 2 computers?

[MegaVovaN]

Hi all!
My 320gb SATA Seagate 7200.10 HDD comes in tomorrow along with 4 port PCI SATA controller! 🙂
Main PC has 2x 80gb Sata disks in RAID 0 using onboard RAID chipset.
Server has 40gb Seagate 5400rpm disk.

There are 4 computers in my home.
My main desktop (AMD 3200+/1gb ram/nForce 2 mobo/6800GT)
server (AMD 1600+/512mb ram/nForce 1 mobo)
and 2 client computers under win xp.
I also have a printer (Samsung ML-1430).

I want to do dual-boot on my main PC: Win XP for games and Ubuntu for everything else.
I want server to be Counter-Strike Server(Internet), print server (LAN), FTP server (Internet&LAN), HTTP server(Internet&LAN), PHP/MySQL maybe, and serving files for 2 windows clients and my main PC on LAN.
Also, it would be very nice to be able to read files on my main PC - from Ubuntu, read/write them from WindowsXP and from WinXP read/write files created in Ubuntu.

Server will have GUI so that it can be used for web browsing/listening radio from the Internet/light office documents editing.


I don't know what disks to put in server and my main computer. Maybe put one 320gb disk in main PC, split it in two (How much for Linux and how much for Windows?) and install windows xp on one part, then Ubuntu on other (I know Ubuntu will make 2 or 3 partitions - okay with me)?
So that I'll ditch 2x80gb RAID 0 and take advantage of new seagate technology (perpendicular writing) and 16mb cache? I'd put Linux on server on one of the 80gb disks and leave 2nd 80gb disk and 40gb disk for file storage? Maybe make a RAID 0 outta 2x80gb disks and install Linux on that?

Or have Linux on one 80gb disk and WinXP on other 80GB disk? (No RAID, cuz Linux does not "see" RAID on my main PC).

Sorry if I typed too much, any info is appreciated 🙂

 

[MegaVovaN]

bump 🙂

 

[Mesix]

You typed a lot and I kinda didn't read the second part of that last big paragraph, so sorry if what I suggest is the same thing.

I would do the 80s in a RAID on the server, and the 320 and 40 in your main box. Put linux on the 40 and divide the 320 into three partitions, one ~5 gig for windows, and the remaining divided in two; one for games and one for personal files such as documents and music. Split the last two up accord to how much you do either.

Further, I would put reiser on the RAID, resier on the 40, NTFS on the 5 and games partition, and FAT32 on the personal files partition

 

[MegaVovaN]

I will probably do like you say, Mesix.

But why reiser file system? Cause it can be "seen" under windows too?

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK there is no reiserfs drivers for Windows and even if there were I don't trust that filesystem with any of my data.