Quote Originally Posted by RobertB
By the way, don't make the mistake I did. I left off the final newline in my /etc/fstab file, and now Linux complains to me about it every time I boot. I just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
Simply go to the end of /etc/fstab and hit return. There just needs to be an empty line at the end of fstab.

Here's a question of my own on this subject: should I move anything other than /home? I've only got 6 gig between the two partitions (plus swap) -- would it be worth the trouble?
There's no 'right' or 'wrong' way to partition really but it certainly is possible to have Linux spread across multiple partitions. Here's my layout though on a larger drive:

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 ext3 942M 363M 532M 41% /
/dev/hda3 ext3 2.8G 209M 2.5G 8% /home
/dev/hda6 ext3 942M 19M 876M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda7 ext3 942M 329M 566M 37% /var
/dev/hda2 ext3 2.8G 2.3G 356M 87% /usr
Of course I just did mine when I installed .