How many partitions do you use?

[Iceni]

Let's see:
There are 6 disks in this computer, a total of 11 partitons - 3 for linux and two disks splitted in half.

250gb xp disk, one partition
320gb ubuntu disk, three partitions
250gb media disk, two partitions
250gb media disk, two partitions.
200 gb disk, right now empty.
160 gb disk also empty. Usually I use these two for testing distros etc.

[public_void]

I have 3 partitions:
ext3 - Root
swap - Swap
NTFS - Windows XP

I don't need any more, i.e. for home.

[pain of salvation]

1 for XP
/
/home
/var
another for music and videos mounted in /home/alvaro/Arquivos

[mivo]

Just three in this machine. 10 GB for /, 235 GB for /home, and 1 GB for swap. There's an external 80 GB disk that I use for backup purposes, but it is not always connected.

[aninaiian]

I currently have four on my 40 GB hardrive

5GB /
1GB swap
7GB /home
and the rest is used as a place to store my media files.

Thinking of changing the scheme as kernel compiling sometimes of fills up /. However, I rarely use more than 2GB mark for /.

[Scruffynerf]

5 partitions across 2 drives.

Drive 1:
NTFS (XP)
EXT3 (Ubuntu)
Swap (Ubuntu)

Drive 2
NTFS (XP Storage)
Ext3 (Ubuntu Storage)

[Shazaam]

Real or virtual?

Physical=
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS (WinXP)

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 38913 312568641 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1 781 6273319 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 782 3350 20635461 83 Linux (PuppyLinux)
/dev/sda7 3351 8471 41134401 83 Linux (Mepis)
/dev/sda8 * 8472 38849 244011253 83 Linux (Ubuntu)

Virtual on Ubuntu host=
hda
1. /swap
2. DSL
3. PuppyLinux
4. Knoppix
5. Mepis

hdb
1. /swap
2,3, & 4 Mandriva /boot /root & /home
5. Ubuntu

hdc
1. WinXP

Virtual on WinXP host=
Same as Ubuntu host.

[Kvark]

Tried the separate /home partition thing, regretted it when I ran out of space on root. Running out of space when there is still space left is stupid. So now I only have two, swap plus root and restore the last backup of personal data after a reinstallation, which only happens when I switch distro.

[init1]

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 331 2658726 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 332 9729 75489435 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 332 557 1815313+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 558 1933 11052688+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1934 3274 10771551 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 3275 4630 10892038+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 4631 6007 11060721 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 6008 7302 10402056 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 7303 8608 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 8609 9729 9004401 83 Linux

I've got lots.
FreeDOS, Ubuntu, 2 Debian, Vector, Antix, Dream Linux, and GeexboX.

[tszanon]

/dev/md0 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/md2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/sdc1 type ntfs (rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46)
/dev/sdc5 on /media/sdc5 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdd1 on /backup type ext3 (rw)