Linux Partitioning

I'm using cfdisk and I'm trying to follow an example I found when searching these forums that is apparently a good scheme for a web server. My disk is a 36Gb drive.

This is how I want to partition:

/boot: 35Mb
/usr: 2048Mb
/var: 1500Mb
/tmp: 1024Mb
/: 1024Mb
/home: rest of drive space
swap: 2048Mb

Questions:

1.) Why is it when I enter 35Mb when creating the /boot partition it shows up as 32.91Mb? The other partitions are also close but different then what I enter.

2.) Is the above a good partition scheme? What should I use in respects to an Ensim/Apache/PHP/MySQL web server with 30 or so small web sites?

3.) Does the order matter? Should the /var or /home partition (customer data) be in a primary partition or logical?

4.) Shouldn't /var be the largest partition and not /home?

5.) If it isn't too much trouble can some folks post some examples of what they're using?

Thanks in advance for any help. I've searched Google and these forums for at least 2 hours and didn't come up with anything helpful. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places...

 

 

 

 

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