Swap: you don't really need a separate partition for swap since, IIRC, Linux 2.2.
Just shows how old I am.
Boot: a 128Mb partition with an ext2 filesystem should be enough. Actually, mine's 124Mb and only 20% used.
It depends on which distro you're using... some distro policies are to have multiple kernels available, and ever since the time I ran out of space on /boot when I was trying to do a dist-upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to another, I've been a bit more generous than that.
Also, remember that in Unix-like systems, links work.
One notable exception: if you're running an Apache server and using suexec, it does check if you're doing soft links for /var/www and suexec spits the dummy. As it should, since that's a security vulnerability.
That said, a separate /var is usually a good idea if you have more than one HDD.
Though having more than one HDD, with disks the size they are nowadays, isn't something that common unless one built one's system oneself.
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Just shows how old I am.
Boot: a 128Mb partition with an ext2 filesystem should be enough. Actually, mine's 124Mb and only 20% used.
It depends on which distro you're using... some distro policies are to have multiple kernels available, and ever since the time I ran out of space on /boot when I was trying to do a dist-upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to another, I've been a bit more generous than that.
Also, remember that in Unix-like systems, links work.
One notable exception: if you're running an Apache server and using suexec, it does check if you're doing soft links for /var/www and suexec spits the dummy. As it should, since that's a security vulnerability.
That said, a separate /var is usually a good idea if you have more than one HDD.
Though having more than one HDD, with disks the size they are nowadays, isn't something that common unless one built one's system oneself.