>> I like having different partitions for /home, /usr etc., but thats IMHO not 
>> the problem here.. The questions should be: Why does X lock-up ?
>
>that's not particularly relevant. i could just as easily have said "i'm a slave
>to -current and it crashes every now and then" and my problem would still
>exist...

I'm a slave to -current and it crashes every now and then.

I have two partitions, a single / for NetBSD, and /win for windows.  The
fsck does take a while, and so I've occasionally considered using LFS
instead of FFS.  LFS cannot be the boot partition on i386 yet, but
on a set up with more than one partition, you should be able to use LFS.

-Tracy