Hi, Historically for my servers and workstations I have tried to make a best guess for partition sizes and create many different filesystems on different partititions: /boot, /, /var, /home (and also /usr and /opt. Of course, as time has gone on, it has been easier to determine reasonable filesystem sizes on major migrations / disk upgrades, and it's much easier to allow GBs off slop these days as compared to a few years ago. Still, this is always a bit of a pain. What is the "best practice" for filesystem partitioning these days? The system I am configuring will mostly serve as a firewall, DHCP server and email gateway. Disk size is 40 GB and will be soft raid. I am tempted to just create /var (and /tmp normally points /var/tmp) for active user data and root (/) for mostly static data, and leave it at that. cheers, Brett