partitioning advice being sought

Hi all

I am helping to set up a friends web server. he is moving from a single processor unit to a dual processor with 2 scsi hardrives (ev1servers.net)

The server came configured with only one drive partitioned the results of fdisk -l shown below

Code: 
Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            14       268   2048287+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3           269       399   1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           400      8924  68477062+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           400      8924  68477031   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
My question is what is the best way for me to partition and format the second drive.

I want to put the mySQL data on the second drive, his site is mysql driven. Thats why he is moving the old server can't cope anymore.

With that in mind can anyone make any recommendations as to how I should configure the second drive (scsi)

I figure having the mysql db on the second drive by itself will improve performance. is that a reasonable assumption?

I also will be putting a backup folder on that drive which will be backing up the first drive. and vica versa for the second drive.

lastly do I need to put a swap partition on the second drive?

the OS is RedHat Enterprise 3 i686 with 2Gig Ram 2 * 2.4gig Xeon CPU's.

Thanks in advance if any one can make some suggestions on the best setup

Chris

 

 

 

 

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