From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 04:43:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF51106566B for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F49D8FC16 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F0895C24 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:56:19 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE585E4.60006@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:41:08 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4EE32BB6.3020105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EE38454.3020307@otenet.gr> <4EE3D1F0.60500@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EE3D6DC.8000201@otenet.gr>, <4EE3D8B3.30308@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <44AC45947DA14449AEDFB13B9F6C5F7D095D33@LTCFISWMSGMB25.FNFIS.com> <4EE56153.8050108@extracktor.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE56153.8050108@extracktor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 9.0 install and journaling X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:43:57 -0000 On 12/12/11 12:05, Foo JH wrote: > On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: >> I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with >> traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting >> users have unlimited access to /tmp. > Pardon the noob question: will using Disk Quotas work to limit the damage > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/quotas.html No, thats a very astute observation. Although its a lot harder to break limits when its an actual partition and everything shows exactly what there is to work with. So I'd personally still use partitioning myself. Quotas could work though, but its an added layer of admin as well.