Help With Proper Partitioning

[smoosh]

I currently have a small home network (4 systems) with a Windows server, two workstations and a laptop. My Windows server was an older version and I wanted to upgrade, but it's very expensive and I don't want to hack it. So, here I am.

I have 2 200GB hard drives in the server. One has Windows and all my data. The other is currently empty. I intend to put FC4 on it and get Samba working and transfer my data from the Windows drive and then set up RAID and be done with Windows server. I'm having trouble seeing the best way to partition my drives. I'm new to Linux, but very familiar with Windows, etc. I want one partition (about 20GB) to house the OS. I then want the remaining space to be shared for data.

Disk Druid is confusing to me. With /boot and /usr and /home. I tried to boot to the RescueCD, but I tried to use fb800 and it said the image could not be found. Is there a better way? Like I said, I'm new to Linux. I hope that someone here can help!

Thanks.

[Jman]

Where's your data going to be stored on the Linux file system? Do a /boot partition, a 20 GB / partition, and the rest where you want the data.

Or just let it put everything but /boot and swap in /, the default.

[smoosh]

I was planning to put the data on the 'as much room as is left' partition. What type should this be?

How big a /boot partition should I have? Since I'm planning to do RAID, should be an LVM Volume Groups or the Hard Drives device type? Is the swap like a Windows swap file or what does it do?

Thanks for the help!