| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> Clunk Clunk Clunk (I'm nodding my head). | I'm with Len - simplify if you can. Although Unlike him, I believe you | should have at least two (Linux) OS partitions - if one is messed up, you | can boot from the other to fix it. And I've also - more than once - had to | tinker with two OSes (usually Debian vs. Fedora) to figure out which worked | best on a particular machine. So I always have at least two OS I used to always have two / partitions for two separate OSes. When a new OS release came out, I always did a fresh install into the other / partition. This meant that the old system could still be run. Now I've gotten a bit lazy and do upgrades in place. Still, having space for a separate installation is comforting. Fedora seems to have been trustable with upgrades-in-place for a few years. According to Lennart, debian has been trustable for a long long time. | And in the name of simplicity, each OS partition includes its | own /var, /usr, /usr/local ... the only separate partitions are swap and | /home, because I want that to be separate and accessible to each of the OS | partitions - and separate and not affected by OS upgrades. Superstitiously, I won't let different distros share a /home. I fear a conflicting set of config files. I don't know that this is a problem, I just don't really want to find out. For this reason, I don't tend to let /home fill the drive. I invent another filesystem to occupy any spare space. Usually /space. | These days it | seems you want a /boot partition though - but I'm not the one to explain | the ins and outs of that. I've not seen a use for a /boot partition. With UEFI booting, you need a separate EFI System Partition. This will be shared by all systems that boot off that drive. This gets mounted on the mount point /boot/efi. It will be some variant of FAT but the partition type will be distinct. Technically you can have more than one EFI System Partition on a drive but don't do this. I did this by accident and had a few problems. Windows cannot handle this case and firmware setup screens may be no better. I don't know of any upside.