For a rough and ready figure of how big your filesystems should be, you can go back to your minimal system and issue a du against them, e.g. du -h /usr which will at the end of it all give you a Mb size for what the system thinks is contained in /usr. You can then back calculate this to whatever number of cylinders you need.
If you ask 10 people how you should partition things then you'll get 11 answers. A lot of it depends on what you want to do.
Rod
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