Linux Partitioning

[blackbox_dev]

I have a machine with two 20GB drives and I'm going to be installing Linux (openSuSE 10.2 downloading ISO right now) as the only operating system on the machine. I just read about partitioning and I think I have a good scheme but I just want to check with some Linux users on the forums first before I run the installer.

All units are in megabytes. Oh, and the partitions are listed from first to last on the drive.

Drive 1:

/ - 9128
swap - 128
/home - 9128
swap - 128
/tmp - 300

Drive 2:

/usr - 9128
swap - 128
/usr/local - 9128
swap - 128
/var - 300

I'm not sure if putting multiple swap partitions between other partitions is common practice, but I think that it'll make the machine slightly faster as the head doesn't have to travel as far to get to a swap partition (because there will always be one right next to the partition currently being accesed).

-iam

[gannon]

Seems good enough. I usually just make a large / partition, then a swap one. Don't really see the reason to make folders into separate partitions since it'll only limit what you can put there, especially /tmp.
My server setup is this at the moment:
Drive 1 (20GB): / (18GB) swap (2GB)
Drive 2 (250GB): /mnt/stor1
Drive 3 (250GB): /mnt/stor2
Drive 4 (250GB): /mnt/stor3
Drive 5 (400GB): /mnt/stor4
I symbolically link my storage drives to my FTP, HTTP, NFS, and SMB folder for quick access.

[Sparkfist]

As gannon mentioned you don't need to have all those directories have separate partitions.

For most people you can get away with just a "/" and a "/swap" for your hard drive setup.

If you're going to be messing with the kernel, or you're worried about your base system getting messed up add a "/boot" partition to the table.

The only time I can think that you'd make a partition for "/bome" is if you have put it on a hard drive (likely slave) and simply want it to be accessible by distributions on removable hard drives, or another bootable OS on separate hard drive.

Hope this isn't confusing.