Is all this partitioning stuff still being done ? I though it had gone away once Linux aquired decent filesystem capabilities. I've installed probably 100 systems in the past few years, all with one big partition for all the /var /usr /tmp etc trees. If I want separate physical disks, I just call them /home2 /home3 or whatever and point the applications at those paths. I can't remember the last time I configured a system with separate filesystems for /opt and /var Recent Fedora Core releases default to one big partition using LVM. Am I smoking crack ?