I'm inclined to not segregate partitions out anymore. The days of systems crashing when /var is full are pretty much long gone (at least for linux), and most systems come with good default log rotation schemes set up. <div>
<br></div><div>If I make a partition for a piece of the filesystem big enough to not have to worry about it, I'm wasting disk. If I make it to small, I'm wishing I hadn't used partitions. I have yet to build a system with swap and / partitions and found it to have been a bad decision. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My $0.02. <br><div><br></div><div>-Rob</div><div><br></div></div>