Ok so I'm changing around a laptop I have and installing Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu on the same hard drive.

Windows XP is set up on a 40GB NTFS partition and I was going to use the other 40GB for the Ubuntu set up.

Now I've no problem creating the partitions, I was just wondering what way you'd set them up and why?

I've read many discussions as to the way people would do it, but just thought I'd throw out the topic here for discussion.

Would you use:

/usr
/usr/local/
/tmp
/home
/
/swap
/var/mail (In case you are running a mail server)

Just interested to see what the general feeling is.

Cheers,
Wolfe