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Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same
> partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create
> separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space.

You are not required to create separate partitions, but there are good 
reasons to do so, namely to avoid that inconsistencies affect vital 
partitions. / is vital, with a separate /boot, you may be able to boot 
but you don't get anywhere - the fsck is on /.

There is not reason to keep /boot separate from /, but there are good 
reasons to keep /usr, /var, /home and /tmp separate.

You don't need to create swap, given you have enough RAM.

All this applies to FreeBSD and Linux. I learned to keep /tmp separate 
the hard way, but that was back in the times of ext2 on linux.

Cheers, Erik

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