I like to keep my partitioning as simple as possible. Since I use UEFI, that means one /boot partition and one / partition:


Swap file is in /swapfile. I don't like having a separate swap partition, because there are times when you just need to change the amount of swap your system has; keeping it as a file lets me balance swap and storage much more dynamically. In the same vein, I hate having /var as a separate partition (like Debian's installer used to do); it's stupid to run out of space for new packages or for logs when the disk isn't even close to full.

My desktop is more complex, out of necessity, since it has two SATA SSDs (one for Windows, one for Linux), one M.2 SSD and one HDD:


Here, sdc is the Linux boot drive, sdb is the Windows boot drive, sda is the M.2 SSD (EXT4-formatted, Linux only), and sdd is the HDD which is split into two partitions, WinDD (NTFS) for Windows and LinDD (EXT-4) for Linux.

Again though, the Linux boot drive is as simple as possible, with a /boot and a /. Here I have multiple levels of swap files; a 2GB one in /, a 16GB one in /mnt/M.2, and a disabled-by-default 32GB one in /mnt/LinDD which I can enable at any time should I need immense amounts of RAM.