I've seen in a few instances were people have set up their partitions as follows:

/
/usr/
/var/
/tmp/
/home/
swap

Is there any real advantage to this for a regular desktop user? Is there any advantage to having them on different type of drive or fikesystem type? I have heard for performance locating /var/ on a ramdisk is good, and /home/ on an HDD is good as well. Please redline in any pointer or comments.