Jesse Guardiani wrote:
In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space.
You are not required to create separate partitions, but there are good reasons to do so, namely to avoid that inconsistencies affect vital partitions. / is vital, with a separate /boot, you may be able to boot but you don't get anywhere - the fsck is on /.
There is not reason to keep /boot separate from /, but there are good reasons to keep /usr, /var, /home and /tmp separate.
You don't need to create swap, given you have enough RAM.
All this applies to FreeBSD and Linux. I learned to keep /tmp separate the hard way, but that was back in the times of ext2 on linux.
Cheers, Erik
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