Thinking about partitioning and mount points
While some might think that creating anything more then the one root partition is unnecessarily obscure or obtuse, for me, a Linux installation is not complete without a carefully planned partition scheme. The benefits are several, first and foremost you protect yourself against a single stupid application logging to much and filling your entire drive with some spammed syslog message. Secondly there is some security benefits since you can deny specific actions from being available to a unprivileged user in the system via others writable areas. It also simplifies restoration when a system has had failures,or as in my case: I have yet again reinstalled the Operating system and need to now dump all my stuff back into the /home/ directories.
The method we will use is to now break down the what and slowly work our way to the why and in the end we might end up understanding my train of thoughts in respect to why having several mount-points is a good thing.