How should the hard disk be partitioned in linux?

[BustAcap]

I want to use the machine as a web server, and I will be installing (re-installting actually) RedHat Linux 7.0.
How are usual partitions set up.
Would you recommend the automatic partition?

 

[ddiccico]

Here's the link to automatic partitioning. Haven't been brave enough to try it myself since I have other OSes I don't want destroyed. If you know the size of the / /home and swap partition you need, disk druid is very easy to use. It took me a while to stop using fdisk and give disk druid a try, but once I did I never used fdisk again.

 

[IBuyUFO]

You should probably have these in separate partitions
/
/var
/home

I should probably have used this scheme but I didn't.

 

[CollegeGuy]

My suggestion:

/
/boot
/home
/var
/opt
/usr
/usr/bin
/www

Again, this is nothing more than a suggestion based on my experience. If you ask a hundred people you will probably get a hundred different answers