The /var looks large unless you are running servers that keep their files
there.
The mail spools are in /var and the web server can be configured to keep files
there. On my machine which is a single user desktop which does run a mail
server I have 26 currently MB in my /var directory. I use procmail to my mail
out the spool and into my home directory automatically.
You cannot spread /home across two partitions unless you use raid. You could
create /home and /home2 and then symlink all directories on /home2 to appear
on /home.
There is no magic partitioning scheme. You have to think about what you will
be storing and allow room for it. I like a /usr/local partition so my hand
installed code is separate from the system installed code. I can wipe out
my /usr partition such as when I went from Redhat to Debian without harming my
local installs.
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Carnegie Mellon University
"Another casualty of applied metaphysics"
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