The bottom line here is that everyone has their own reasons for different partitioning. I have not really seen any bad advice. However, one piece of advice is to use logical partitions. PC architecture has 4 physical partitions. If you are dual booting with Windows, generally put Windows into Partition 1. Then simply set up partition 2 as an extended partition for the rest of the device. You may want to put the /boot into partition 2 so as you can force it to be closer to the beginning of the drive., and then use partition 3 for the extended. The extended partition can have any number of logical partitions. Once you do this, you can subsequently resize and add (or subtract) logical partitions. LVM is also a way to be able to do this. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9