I'm getting ready to get completly rid of windows pretty soon. I figured that I would do a complete reinstall of Mandrake Maybe 10 if it is released in the next few weeks. Question is, how do you guys recommend I partition the drive? It's a 45gb drive. So far I was thinking about the following.

/ 5gigs
/home 20 gigs
/usr 20 gigs


Do you guys do different partitions? Currently I've only done a

/
/home

paritions but I ran out of space because my /usr contained all of the programs I was installing but I didn't know that's where everything was going.

Also, what file system do you guys use? I read some about Reiserfs4 and it sounds pretty good. I've used the old ext3 file system in the past. What's good?

Thanks for any light you guy's can shed on this.

Well, I only put apps in /usr that need to be globally accessible, and since I'm mainly the only one that uses this box, I end up putting a lot of stuff in /home. Having a seperate partition for /usr isn't a bad idea though, especially if you have multiple users that use a lot of different apps. I've also heard of advantages in this scheme in terms of stability, since you don't have corruption issues with constantly changing dirs like /etc and /tmp residing on the same partition with a relatively static /usr dir.

I've used both ReiserFS and ext2/3, and I honestly haven't noticed a great deal of difference. As far as technically superiority, from what I've heard XFS is supposed to be the best. Honestly, if you haven't had any probs at all with ext3 in the past, and you're worried about data, you might just want to stick with what you know.

I've recently switched to rieserfs and when X locks on me or something (which is not very often) when the reboot runs fsck, it takes like 5 sec to run it on a 20 gig drive.. compared the ext3 taking 15 mins or so.. and deleting files every time it seems like.