This is a newbie question.
I have a Linode 512 and this comes with 16GB.
You have to reserve some space for swap (256 MB for an ubuntu server, does that sound about right?)
What about the rest? Do you create 1 disk image for your webserver, or do you create 2 disk images, 1 for your webserver, and 1 for data/backup storage?
I am going to experiment and learn how to manage a server before I go live, so I will probably reinstall my server a few times in the following months and thought that a separate data disk would save me some trouble (backups of config files, sites, ...).
Does this makes sense?

I found out how to mount the data disk:
- Create new disk image "Data"
- edit configuration profile and select "Data" (name of image) for /dev/xvdc.
- save changes and reboot
- ssh login, mkdir /data and mount -t ext3 /dev/xvdc /data
And this works.
How do I put this correctly in the fstab? I do not know all the options.

thanx

PS: How many servers can you create on 1 linode512? Probably only 1 running at a time, but can you create more than 1?

It's up to personal preference. I like to put everything in one big partition, others like to segment off home directories or log directories.

Custom partition/disk configurations may conflict with Linode's managed backup service. I seem to remember that being mentioned but I could be wrong.

Edit: viewtopic.php?p=28240#28240

Having multiple disks is fine, so long as they don't have a partition table (or are LVM, etc).

If you've created the disk images with the Linode Manager and chosen 'ext3', the backup service will do just fine.

-Chris