Fewer partitions are better (Re: Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices)

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Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:04, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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>>It may be time to rethink multiple partitions.  For legacy reasons,
>>I build my systems with multiple partitions, but if I had it to do
>>over again I would probably do it with 3 partitions:
>>     /boot (because it has to be small)
>>     swap  (about 2 GB)
>>     /     (everything else, including multiple drives if LVM)
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>You will definitely want to have /home as a separate partition.
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>It is very good for when you want to install a fresh version (ie, not
>upgrade) since you can format it safely.
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>Rui
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I agree, and on servers a seperate /var can be useful as well since it 
is where the users "Inbox", all the system logs and the html dir..

Im my mind the best setup would be..

/boot  (primary)
/ (primary)
/home (LVM)
/var (LVM)
swap (LVM)?

Later..