Hi,
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with different distros i.e freebsd, fedora, suse etc. And I have finally decided to stick with Novel SUSE 10. My question is what do you recommend as a stable fstab setup for suse 10? i have a pata 160gb drive. I have seen how freebsd lays out its fstab, and it appears to be very different to other distros, (i know its not linux) but it did get me re-thinking about how to layout my fstab properly instead of a quick and easy setup and im now im back at square one again with what is the best way of setting up fstab for linux?
I noticed in suse it only allows four primary partitions, so I couldnt try and copy how freebsd did its layout. Any help would be appreciated.

Its not so much the fstab setup but the partition layout you choose before you install (the fstab file is automatically created based on the partitioning scheme).

But for a basic home PC you can't go wrong with

\ - root partition
\home - Partition for users data files
\swap - Rule of thumb is that the size is the same as the amount of ram you have (or is that twice as much?)

Putting \home on a separate partiton means you can reinstall your os without losing user settings.

Although i suppose it dependes whether your duel-booting with windows as you might then want to set up a FAT32 partition to enable file sharing between OSs.

Also you might be only able to setup 4 primary partitions but you can have more extended partitions.

You need to have a good search on Google for recommendations on partitioning.

Have you read the Linux Partitioning HOWTO? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/