[newbie] Linux partitioning

[Gregg Black]

I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space.  I would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning.  I was a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root.  This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done.  I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'.  I thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point.  My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home.  Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.

At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition.  Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly.  Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I'm using mandrake 7.2

-Gregg