Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
The problem is that many people (not saying that is the case here) don't know how to do it right, or even why they are doing it. In those cases, they should stick to the 4 basic partitions (/boot, /, /tmp and swap).
You are forgetting /home, which I really would put on a partition of its own, as that makes upgrading your Distribution much easier, cause you don't really have to worry about the data there. You can even go for another distribution then and still use your old /home partition.
Ralph