Everyone who commented offered reasonable and useful insights. We all have different needs from our systems so it makes sense for a variety of partitioning schema to be used.
To close this thread I'll submit what I decided would work well for me: /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /boot /dev/sda3 swap /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 /usr /dev/sda7 /opt /dev/sda8 /var /dev/sda9 /tmp This will also force me to re-organize all _my_ contents in a more productive way. With a nominal 500G on the new drive and my current space occupancy of 138G there's plenty of expansion room. If I should ever need more space (gak!!) the cost of multi-terabyte drives will probably be <$100. Thanks again for all your comments, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
