Waiting for two of my friends to come home and have a cop of coffee and to show them the 250 goals of Del Piero. They are both Real Madrid fans so that makes the showing of the goals taste sweater
I read somewhere that having a /home on a separate partition is good to keep your settings and the likes where you can install the system on / as many times as you want.
True, but there are always certain files on / that I want to preserve, so I do a full system backup and then just extract them when I need them. Things like xorg.conf (which isn't really necessary anymore).
Looks fine. You can probably merge them later, but I think it has to be offline, so you'll have to boot from parted livecd or something. I don't think you can resize / while you're booted into it.