Judging by your present setup, it looks like you have 8gb ram, half of
it being used as tmpfs; or am I wrong.

As for /tmp & /var, they would be under/on your / partition, as would
/usr. That is why I was suggesting at least 10gb; you appear to be
using about 4gb at present; that should leave enough room for any
further additional applications you install in the future.

Swap is not mandatory. :-)
If you think you will need some, add equal to system ram, but I don't
bother with swap on 2gb ram or more, as my usage of ram is pretty low,
web browsing, movie watching, playing music, etc.

The main reason for having separate / & /home is that I can re install
the system if necessary, without having to re install all my personal
files.
(Of course, I still have backups.) :-)

On 28/06/2012, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote:
>> Personally, I would re install if this is a personal system, it will
>> make life easier in the future.
>>
>> If you do decide to;
>> create a / partition of about 10gb (minimum)
>> a swap partition (if you want one)
>
> swap would be almost mandatory, wouldn't it?
>
>> & the rest either as one partition for /home,
>>   or multiple partitions ( /home, /data, /movies, etc)
>
> What about /tmp? or is that not necessary now because of this new tmpfs
> thingy?
>
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