Hi, the more partitions, the more wasted space.
For example /var 2gb /vat is mostly enough, but sometimes, you need 4,6,8 GB, but 6/8GB /var is just overkill. /home should always be on its own partition, this way, you can reinstall everything without risking your user-data, or share /home between installs. Some time back, I used /boot /swap /home /tmp /var /opt, /usr/local, all on different partitions of different disks. But for a single-user system like mine, I ended with a lot of 85% full partitions and a lot of wasted gb. Now I have /root /home /boot /swap and / is big enough, that nothing should fill it up ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
