[NTLUG:Discuss] Recommended partitioning scenario?

[Dennis Daupert]

My Suse 10.1 box lost its windowing system. This would
be a good time to upgrade.

I'd like to do a dual boot setup, perhaps openSUSE
11.0 and Kubuntu 8.04.1. Does anyone have a
recommendation for a sane, simple partitioning
scenario? I've usually used a primary partition for
/boot, another for /, another for /swap, then extended
and sometimes separate logical partitions for /home
and /usr/local. Now I'm thinking 1st primary for /boot
(Um, can I use that for both linux distros?), one
primary each for each distro's /, then extended, then
a logical /swap, and one logical /home partition
shared between the distros (would that work?). I'd
like to try to Keep /home intact in later upgrades. 

Thoughts?

best,

/dennis