[PLUG] how to divide up a filesystem?

[Ron Mansolino via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I have a pile of cheap parts I intend to assemble into a general-purpose workstation; I have 3 sata ports available.

I want to put / on an SSD, and I'm looking for suggestions on how/where to mount the rest.

My instinct says to put /var on it's own port; and /usr is the largest subdir on my other machine.

I thought about putting /home on the third spindle so I can yank it later if need be, can this be NTFS?

What else should I put there? (eg. pub).

how much swap space is overkill? The mainboard only supports 8Gb; but I assume I'll have plenty of room on the SSD.

Is there any advantage to having additional swap partitions on other spindles?

thx

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