How to get the most out of HD space.

[Konstantin Svist]

Michael P Angell wrote:
>  Pretty much a partitioning question. 2 or 6 partitions? Usage and or
> benefit of higher lower number of partitions? Didn't Red Hat install
> multiply partitions in earlier versions

Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to Linux/Fedora, so take my advice with a 
grain of salt

/boot is nice to have on a separate partition for various reasons. It 
doesn't grow out of bounds, either, so it's an easy choice.
Everything else lives perfectly well on / most of the time
I've heard somewhere that it's nice to have /home on a separate 
partition for smoother upgrades (read: reinstalls), but that seems like 
a lot of work, since both /home and /usr like to grow in size.. It's 
definitely easier to make a mistake than in case of /boot.



Of course none of this would be an issue if there weren't any legal 
problems with a certain filesystem that will go unmentioned so as to not 
start another flame war :)


HTH