Partition Sizes and Active server log files 1

[chronicle]

I am setting up a Windows 2003 server SP2 as a domain controller, DHCP server and File server for a small network with only 4 PC's and a couple of network printers. I have 2 320GB disks set up for RAID 1.
How much data is written to the Active directory log files?
The Microsoft technotes suggest dividing the disk into 2 equal partitions, one for the OS and one for the Active Directory logs etc. see link

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...tory/activedirectory/stepbystep/domcntrl.mspx

However 160 GB seems ridiculous for log files on such a small network. How big should I make these partitions? Should I have a separate partition for the file data?
Any suggestions welcome as I am coming to this from a Unix background and have no idea how much data gets written to Windows server log files.
Thanks
Rob

 

[itsp1965]

Chronicle for such as small network I would recommend you do the following;
1. Since you have 320GB mirrored as RAID-1 to play with, create the following partitions;
OS C: - 20GB
AD D: - 10GB (this is optional since your network is small I would just leave AD on C:
Pagefile E: - Make this partition at least 3x the amount of RAM.
Data F: - The remainder of the drive for your user data

Hope this helps.