I have 6 partitions (/, swap, boot, usr, var, home). I did it that way so it would be easier to go to ReiserFS later (hard to find the time/energy). This is a 20GB drive btw.
After using Linux for about 7 years now... Here is what I find works best...
1) /
2) swap
3) /home
4) /usr/local
What I do is install Linux into the / partition.... which about 4-6 Gig seems to do the trick...
and then I use a separate /home and /usr/local...
I actually usally have a few different linux's installed at any one time so all I have to do is create another / partition and then share /home and /usr/local paritions among all the installs... that way anything "extra" I install will be availabe between all my installs..
This also makes "upgrading" easier since you can upgrade but keep all the stuff that is yours inbetween installs...like email and things in your /home directory and any software you installed/wrote in /usr/local..
It just makes it very easy to install/re-install/upgrade etc... and manage to keep all your customizations.
I was thinking /home so I could partition the / w/out affecting my personal files. I want what would be easiest to update, so what do you think for a 15 GB drive?
I really do like Hitman's idea of a separate partition for usr/local, but i don't know if I'll have enough room. 15G -5 for / -4 for /home -256mb for swap -5 for /usr/local = 15GB
In the master boot record of course silly... You have to have SOME sort of of boot loader there... and if you are only running LILO...well then its either the MBR or you dont boot.
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