On Wednesday 28 January 2004 16:01, Ron Herardian wrote: > Hello, > > When installing everything and allowing for future updates and packages I > am using the following disk layout: > > Mount Point Size > /boot 100MB I really wonder why people still use /boot partitions when they have a small root (/) partition. My prefered layout is / 500M /2 500M (alternate root for testing/upgrading) everything else on LVM /usr 5-6G /var 1G /tmp 1G /home - what one needs /opt /usr/local - if you use it much -- ronny