Partition Scheme
 

I have 72GB of unallocated space. Is this partition scheme okay for a desktop PC? I know having so many partitions is often unnecessary, but it seems the majority have something similar.

/boot 50MB
/ 16384MB
/swap 2048MB (following the swap space rule of thumb)
/home 26624MB
/usr 26624MB

Thanks :)

yeah it's fine, but you don't need that much swap as the "rule of thumb" is cobblers. also you're going to waste a lot of space in /usr really. but then if you don't have a lot of space requirements it doesn't really matter i guess. personally i'd make /home 30gb bigger at the expense of /usr and /

How about:

/boot 50MB
/ 12288MB
/swap 2048MB
/home 40960MB
/usr 16384MB

?

Oh, I forgot to mention that I already have Windows XP Media Center installed (hda1 and hda2 are used up by it). Is there anything in specific I need to do to dual-boot, or is creating the Linux partitions after the Windows partitions enough?