RE: [SLUG] Partitioning Question

["Jon Biddell" <jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

-=> I have always wondered why the default installation of 
-=> mandrake or other distro's, partitions your drive into all 
-=> these different partitions, if you choose the auto allocate feature.
-=> 
-=> For example, different partitions for /home and /var and /
-=> 
-=> I have always just used the one partition for everything - 
-=> at what stage does the partitioning of the drive start to matter??

I think, with Mandrake at least, it partitions into swap (roughly 2 x
physical memory) and splits the rest between /home and /.

Personally, for a small system or workstation, I partition 100Mb to
/boot (old habit from the lilo <1024 cylinder days), swap as above, and
the rest as /.

I guess partitioning the filesystem specifically for /usr, /usr/local,
/opt (useless !!!), etc. is when you are running LVM and raid arrays, or
the system is in heavy use...

Other than that, I guess it's personal preference.

Jon