Hello everybody!
I am going to install OpenSuse 11.0 as my server OS and planning to virtualize windows XP and develop some asp.net application to host it inside virtualized windows desktop.
Now I want to know something about it.
Thanks in advance.
Umesh
swap 2xRAM
/ 10-20GB
/home everything left over
/boot hasn’t been needed for a while with modern BIOSes.
If you put your VMs in /home/virtualbox or something like that, they will be carried over across version updates and also not use up space in /
I guess somewhere I read that it’s not good practice to make this kind of partition. For performance tunning u have to have separate partition for seperate mount point like var, home. But it was for redhat linux. But I dont’ know about the Suse.
Anyway thanks for your reply.
UMESH
If you are the kind of admin who needs to tune the partitions to that level, then you would already know what to do and not have to ask. 
A separate /var is useful for machines that mostly handle mail, DB or lots of data. It prevents an overflow of /var from killing the other services. Also allows you to put /var on faster disks if that is the case (although symlinks can be used to a similar effect).
A separate /usr is useful for machines that export it as a r/o NFS partition (less common these days, but useful in the past for workstations with limited disks to get a common /usr from a server).
Sorry, it’s too late and I’m too tired to think up of all the situations for separate partitions. But they can be deduced from an understanding of how filesystems are used.
The disadvantage to the run-of-the-mill user of chopping things up this finely is that you may run out of space in one partition where there’s more space left elsewhere. There’s LVM for that too, another factor to keep in mind. So keep it simple if you are not a power user.
Thanks for your brief explanation in spite of being so much tired.