On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, VaX#n8 wrote:
> 
> : What kind of partition sizes and schemes are people using?
> : Another BSD suggests / swap /usr /var /tmp /var/tmp /home, possibly also
> : /usr/local and /usr/X11R6.
> 
> Production box:  /, /usr, /home (only because it's a separate disk), and MFS
> /tmp.  /var/tmp is a symlink to /tmp.
> 
> Home development machines - NFS server: /, MFS /tmp.  /var/tmp is a symlink
> to /tmp.
> 
> Clients: /, NFS /usr (only if / is a local disk), MFS /var.  /tmp is a
> symlink to /var/tmp.  MFS /var is populated in /etc/netstart.local.
> 
> These days I find more than a couple partitions `overkill', even on `big'
> disks.  The sysadmin at work partitioned the disk on my workstation to six
> partitions plus swap on an 800MB disk; I nearly beat him over the head, and
> repartitioned it to just / and swap.
And you have no problems like: 2-nd partition is too small, i must
move something to 4-th, add soft-links to make it working etc.

I use no more than 3 partition including swap (usually 2) on one disk