A partitioning scheme for ubuntu server

I am setting up an ubuntu server to be used for experimentation, testing and learning. Basically with LAMP and then setting up WordPress and most likely Drupal. I also plan to experiment with setting up a home intranet. This system will not be serving over the Internet.

My desktop has a fairly standard /, swap, /home partitioning scheme. Would this be an adequate scheme for the server as well? Or would it be beneficial to do something fancy like creating separate partitions for /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home?

I'll probably wind up doing things like corrupting MySQL and having to start over while on my learning curve. Also, I have 2 drives and plan on setting up with software RAID0 if that matters.

Thanks.

For a production system it can be a good idea to put directories that can fill up quickly on their own partitions, like /tmp/ or parts of /var.

Sometimes you want to use different file systems or file systems with different parameters for some directories, like big mail or news spools which hold very much small files.

If /usr is on its own partition it can be mounted read-only so it doesn't get corrupted at system crashes.

For a learning system this things aren't needed - but maybe it's something you want to play with.