I would suggest the following, since you do have quite a bit of disk space.
swap 512M
/ 1000M
/boot 100M
/usr 10000M
/var 1000M
/home 7400M
Most RPM's install themselves into various parts of /usr. If you plan to compile and install most of your own stuff, you can reduce /usr by a bunch (3GB should be safe) and reallocate the rest to /usr/local. The purpose of putting /var on a separate partition is so that in case your log files grow out of control, it doesn't fill your root partition (and thus, prevents you from logging in). The root partition should be fairly empty. The /boot partition houses things like your boot images, initial ramdisks, and kernel. |
