I tend to dislike partitioning into a bunch of small pieces like Red Hat defaults to. The reason being that you will eventually run out of space in /tmp or /home or /usr or wherever you don't think you're going to run out of space (see Murphy's law). For our systems at work (and my home systems) I usually partition the main drive as follows: /boot 100MB / 10000MB (I load everything on the distribution which leaves me about 4 GB of slop space for /tmp and a growing /usr) swap 2-4 GB depending on system memory The rest goes on another partition that you can call whatever you want (you can use /home if it makes you feel better ;-) Jan On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:47, Tom Charles-Edwards wrote: > Greetings. > > I have just set up my first partition table. > > When you specify the mount point for each partition you can use your own title or > one of those in the menu. I can't remember all of them, but they had names like / > var, /tmp etc etc. > > Where can I find information about which of these I need to create partitions for and > what they're supposed to be used for. > > Currently I have (ext3): > > / > swap > /home > /audio > > I guess when I'm installing software an arbitrarily structured partition table is likely to > result in chaos something I'm naturally quite keen to avoid. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Tom