Personally, I find that it's best not to have too many partitions. I do like to keep system partitions separate from everything else, so that an upgrade or replacement of the OS doesn't affect any local data. And having a /boot partition is wise. If you're going to be playing with lots of different kernel versions, then you might want it as big as 200MB.
I feel that 4GB (to 6GB) is a good size for /. I'd use the rest for local data: home, /usr/local, etc. What I normally do is just make symbolic links from any area that I want to move *off* the / partition, to the local data partition. I find the advantage of this is that you don't fragment your available space, and you don't have to predict how much space each partition will need in advance. Plus it's simpler to partition. :-) Where I *do* use other partitions, is where I want to run another OS. E.g. I have a Windows partition, a Windows data partition, and a couple of partitions (actually on other discs) for old versions of Red Hat. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
