Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:24 -0800 From: Bill <bill@linuxcare.com> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ? (and maybe a fourth too) Message-ID: <3C7D01E4.8F8BA807@linuxcare.com> References: <20020226152847.L25859-100000@roble.com>
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Roger Marquis wrote: > > > Creating a partition for /var is also rarely necessary unless your > applications require partitioning for performance , pseudo-quotas, > or they need more disk than the root volume provides. > [humbly_snipped] I've been pinched before by error files in a overflowed /var/log/ where /var is inside / and filled up the whole parition to where I was barely able to log in to start freeing up space and will never do that again. I keep a "water_dike" around /var per-se' in the form of it's own partiton. My $0.02 -- Bill Schoolcraft Linux/Unix System Engineer 650 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 SF (415) 354-4878 http://www.linuxcare.com "Linux/Unix, A Way Of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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