[gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

[sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net>]

I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am 
looking for some input.

My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for 
outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some 
games, whatever I wish to play and experiment.

Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three.
Here is what I quickly setup.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             471M  271M  176M  61% /
udev                 1004M  208K 1004M   1% /dev
/dev/hda1              38M  2.6M   34M   8% /boot
/dev/hda5             4.6G  185M  4.2G   5% /var
/dev/hda6              31G  2.3G   27G   8% /usr
shm                  1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm

What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and 
that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like 
it is on my freebsd system.
When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / 
partition, which I have since deleted.
Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, 
since users are not there by default?

I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, 
maybe shrink a few mb.
/var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half.
/usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I 
have not installed much currently.
If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation 
would be fine?
Anyone confirm?
Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the 
default setup for users be located in /usr/home?
Would this cause problems?
Is it non standard?

					Thanks
					Sean
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