From: "Brent L. Bates" > If you really want separate partitions for all of those directories, > why > you would I don't know, create separate partitions on each drive and RAID > the > partitions as needed. (...) > /boot / /home /swap /tmp /var As far as I know, that kind of partitioning scheme is fairly common with servers. You wouldn't want your users filling up the whole disk and bringing the system to a crawl or halt, or the log files from the web server doing the same, would you? So, give them separate spaces that cannot be trespassed! Some distributions of Linux automatically create this partitioning scheme when you choose Instalation Type=Server.