slackware

I've decided to try slackware because I just got a new box. It's got a 40gb hdd; what is a good way to partition it? I was going to create separate partitions for swap, /home and /usr aside from the bootable partition, but I'm not sure what sizes to make them. What is a good distribution of hdd space?

How much swap you need depends on how much RAM you have and what you intend to do with it. / should be 5 GB for a HD as small as yours or 10 GB otherwise. /home should be everything else. Further division is pointless.