Bruce Marshall wrote:
For a workstation, sure. With servers it's very different. You might want /var mounted sync and noatime because you're running a mail server, a seperate disk for /var/log, /tmp nodev and nosuid for security reasons, /usr and /opt ro to minimize downtime because of an fsck, etc.
Sorry, I didn't see the word 'server' anywhere in his post.
Actually, it's not a server (well not much anyway) but I do use another machine as a small server and the need for separate partitions is greater. My suggestion really is that on 30Gb, 2.0G / 100M /boot 4.5G /home 5.0G /opt 12G /usr 2.0G /var 2.0G /tmp and swap 2-3 times as big as the maximum memory you might install would be ample for an 8.2 installation and is roughly what I will use. They can of course be combined if you like and as you suggest. When I lost the /tmp partitition altogether, it took about two minutes to set up a new /tmp in the /usr partition - one advantage of multiple partitions ;-) -- JDL Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.