I recently completed a project where I used LVM to(3) If you don't mind spending a few rainy afternoons, you might want to investigate lvm. It allows you to create virtual resizable partitions, so the only thing you have to decide at install time is size-of-slash and size-of-everything-else. It also allows you to do filesystem snapshots (which are really nifty). ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ )
make 2 120 GB drives and a 20 GB partition into 1 /home filesystem. However, I switched to evms (http://evms.sourceforge.net) as it has a ncurses gui for easy configuring for a server. Their IRC is very helpful as well.
Brian
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