What I do for a new machine?

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 2 December 2011 13:30, LinuxIsOne <linuxisone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> / is on /dev/sda2
>> /boot is on /dev/sda1
>> /home is on /dev/sda4 <= encrypted
>> /opt is on /dev/sda6
>> /tmp is on /dev/sda5
>> /usr/local is on /dev/sda8
>> /var is on /dev/sda7
>> swap is on /dev/sda9 <= encrypted
> But where is /dev/sda3?
Looking at above, /dev/sda3 appears to be the extended volume partition.

In any case, I would recommend LVM in such setups since it allows you
to resize the partition sizes significantly easier than partitions.