I'm of the view that /usr ALWAYS goes on G.
Why?  Cause when I have that mystery disk, I will assume
a=root and g=/usr.

No other good reason that 20 years of tradition.


And, having used OpenBSD for 5 years, I've never used
more than the 8 partitions that work with other unixes.
Mostly because I occasionally needed to read the disk
from Solaris boxes and what not.  It was just simpler.
What with 500GB RAID boxes being more common, I'd loosen
up this rule were I using OpenBSD on the large disk boxes.

Solaris 9 has some scheme to allow more partitions - which IS
needed on boxes I have with Terrabyte plus disk arrays.

Quoting Jeff Flowers (jeffrey@jeffreyf.net):
> I am running into the NetBSD parition slice limitation and I was
> wondering if anyone can suggest a work around. I current set my system
> up like so:
> 
> a    /
> b    swap
> c    netbsd parition
> d    whole disk
> e    /usr
> f    /var
> g    /tmp
> h    /home
> 
> I would also like to have slices for other things that I want, as I
> want to keep my current scheme. Is there a way to get more slices?