[SWLUG] partitions

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i have a new disk drive and i'm going to do a new install, it occurs to me 
that i can have an awful lot of partitions if i want, so apart from /, /boot, 
/usr, /home, /var are there advantages to having other mount points, what 
about /etc/ or /usr/local for example and if so how large shoulod they be?

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