How do you partition your filesystem?

[Big-E]

Currently, I just experience an issue where i ran out of disk space on my / partition, it was easily remedied by running du -sh * to display disk usage for all files in my root partition, then I tracked it down to a large file in my /root partition that I forgot about and moved it into my /home partition, which has a large partition allocated for storage. So that has got me thinking about how I partition my disk, typically you should need a max 3GB so I had thought but maybe my percieved knowledge is wrong. How do you partition your disk, and why?

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root@mattd4:/# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               264445    139336    111456  56% /
tmpfs                  1038200         0   1038200   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                     10240        52     10188   1% /dev
tmpfs                  1038200         0   1038200   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9             28613020    304092  26855452   2% /home
/dev/hda8               381138     10293    351167   3% /tmp
/dev/hda5              4806904    804812   3757908  18% /usr
/dev/hda6              2885780    349704   2389488  13% /var

[lilrofl]

If I get the question right, reading it as how do i partition my drive, it's not hard.

I use Paragon Drive Tools, because it is bootable, stable and reliable for partitioning drives and resizing partitions full of data with no loss. I have used Partition Magic before, and it's alright. A friend of mine swears by Qparted but I don't like it, however it does have the advantage of being GPL though and that's gotta be good for something.

I suppose there are a bunch of ways to get the job done, I just prefer Paragon is all, incidentally I think it's called Paragon Partition Manager now.

If I didn't understand the question right, then I apologize for wasting your time hehe.

[bad_brain]

well, my partition table is a little weird because I use multiple distros:

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Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1        3039    24410736   83  Linux
/dev/hdc2            3571        4804     9912105   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3            4805        4865      489982+   5  Extended
/dev/hdc4            3040        3570     4265257+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc5            4805        4865      489951   82  Linux swap / Solaris

for my main system (Lenny) I have:
/
/home

for Sarge only
/
the rest is DesktopBSD and of course the swap space...