tlug: Partitioning sizes

[Dave Gutteridge <dave@example.com>]

I'm finally going to set up my own Linux Machine, seperate from the machine
that i've been using so far from my office. As i'm sure everyone always
does with every new task, I'm telling mysefl "This time i'm going to do it
really, REALLY right!" 
Anyways, i've hit my first little snag. (well, second after the CD-ROM
problem mentioned in another post):
The Red Hat 5.2 Manual says i should partition thusly:

64MB swap
16MB /boot
256MB /
512MB /usr 
512MB /home
256MB /var
(One note of confusion - the manual says that I should make the / partition
as big as possible, and then on the very next line it says the / partition
should be 256MB. I think there was some kind of editing mistake, and I
wonder if there's some other partition which should be 256MB)

This equals 1616MB of space. My hard drive is only 1.2. I can't really
afford to upgrade, so the question is, where should i skimp? 

What differs from the last time when I set up the machine at work is that
I'm I'm going to be the only user of this new system, so i'm suspecting i
can reduce /home or /usr, but i'm not sure which of the two should be given
priority.
Also, since a big part of this machine's purpose is to do mail services
(albeit only for me at this point), should I increase /var?
Just in case it will affect the answers - the machine is for web pages (no
streaming audio or video but multiple domain names), FTP (no anonymous) and
mail (me with multiple accounts and one mailing list) only.

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