> I guess you could argue that for a single-user machine these are not huge
> considerations. They may become more important if you are setting up a
> mission critical server.
Good points. For production servers, there are entirely new issues, too.
For instance, you might actually want different sorts of *hardware* for
each partition. You could store home directories on a RAID array and
leave /tmp on some large, unreliable disk.
Shawn