Partitioning Disk

[Chris Jones]

>> / 		= 20Gb
>> /temp		= 10Gb
>> /swap		= 8Gb (2x RAM)
>> /Data		= remainder
>>
>> I then delete the user folder (Documents, Pictures, etc.) a sym link
>> their equivalent from /Data.   
> 
> And why don't you simply mount the remainder partition on your $HOME?
> No symlinks necessary, no cluttering the / namespace with non-standard
> entries.

There are reasons for doing things this way. For instance if you where 
to want to dual boot your machine with multiple linux distros, you could 
choose to have a seperate /home and mount it in each. That would be very 
convenient in terms of sharing your data, but it would also mean each 
system would have to share the various ~/.XYZ config files. Depending on 
your point of view this might be good or bad. If you don't want this, 
then the scheme above makes sense. (Although I do wonder about the 
usefulness of /temp, unless them mean /tmp instead ...)

Not giving an opinion here, just saying like others have said already 
there are numerous ways to carve your disks up, depending on your 
particular requirements.

cheers Chris