Trusting the gurus on this, I decided to partition my linux a while back. But, I didn't know what or why (for sure) that/what I needed so I made
/,
/usr, and
/home...just to be safe.
Today I had an epiphany about
/var, so I have made that. Perhaps one day soon I'll see a need for a /tmp partition, and create one. right now I don't so I have it on the / (root) partition.
My epiphany about /var came when I noted that Mandrake Backup was placing the backups on /var...and I had been directing them to a partition I made called /backup...
Now I have moved all the stuff on /backup to /var/backup...and renamed /boot to /var...moving the appropriate files.
Of course *I* didn't move them...Mandrake did that for me when it saw what I had done.
Man!...I love Mandrake more & more as time goes on.
I could have done this all myself but Mandrake just did it automatically.
