[NTLUG:Discuss] Partition Size

[Dennis Rice]

Last Saturday our speaker, Brett Rilling suggested that when a new 
installation is made, that partitions be created for each of the basic 
directories.  (An absolute excellent presentation also!!!)  His 
suggestion was that directories be created for:
/boot
/root
/home
/var
/usr

For discussion, what size, and why, would one make for each directory. 
  The issue that must be made is what type of installation is being 
made, namely minimum / medium / full install.  For discussion, since 
hard drives are relatively low cost, say we have a 200 Giga-byte drive.

How would you complete the following table?

Partition	Minimum		Medium		Full
/boot		.		.		100M
/root		.		.		.
/home		.		.		.
/var		.		.		5G
/usr		.		.		.

 From experience, I know that the /var directory must be at minimum 5 
GB to support an initial yum update after installation.

Hope we have an interesting discussion.

Dennis