[newbie] partitions

[Bill W.]

Hi All,
        I recently purchased a 30 gig hard drive and installed LM 8 on it. The 
system is a dual boot with win98. 
        I have absolutely no experience with partitions so I just went with 
recommended and it seems like I have one "huge" partition in addition to a 
small swap. I am moving to linux but I want to know if I should be creating 
smaller partitions for /var, /home etc..........also, with a hd of this size 
would anyone recommend going to the reiserfs?

Thanks,
Bill W.