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Old 03-08-2013
FWIW - Only / and /boot are required for a bootable RHEL. Even though swap is optional it's really risky to have a system without it - many programs will crash or won't even load, the system may have memory leaks here and there, you'll often have OOM crashes, etc.

So yeah, use the / + /boot + swap combo unless you really REALLY have a good reason not to have a swap partition.
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Old 03-08-2013
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Originally Posted by lupin..the..3rd
Do what makes sense for your usage pattern. For a desktop or workstation, I make a single / mount point and that's it. No need to segregate /opt or /var or anything else onto its own filesystem.
I'd at least segregate /home. It can make the difference between needing to fsck one optional partition, and needing to reformat -- the filesystem which changes the most often is the one that'll get corrupted on power loss, and a corrupted root partition can't fsck itself.
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