For servers, I keep the default OpenBSD partitionning scheme, but giving more space to /var instead of /home, as I have stuff like /var/www, /var/gopher, /var/git, ... Having only one user means /home is barely useful.

For my personnal computer, it's a different scheme. I used to use LVM, but I don't really need to resize partitions, so when my drive crashed, I decided to not use LVM again. one less driver to compile in !

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That's right, no /home. I used to have it, but now that I have backups setup correctly, I decided to nuke it completely. I like to keep tmpfs partitions around, so I'm sure that I don't pile things up in /tmp or ~/tmp. If I must keep something, then I must move it somewhere. It helps keeping things clean. However, sometimes stuff sit right in ~ for weeks haha.

Once I get a new drive, I'll use it for data/backups, and mount it to /var/data. This would also serve as a local cache to my deduplication data program, which usually sit in /var/dedup for now (and take up some space!)

On my pro laptop, I won't have an external drive for backups, so /var/dedup is separate. If backups go crazy, they won't fill up the whole drive and fuck things up at the worst time possible (mid-upgrade or something).