Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:21:03 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: root partition Message-ID: <15118143729.20020624222103@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020624195803617.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> References: <20020624195803617.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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Dear Philip, Monday, June 24, 2002, 9:58:02 PM, you wrote: >> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:36:24 -0500 (CDT) >> From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu> >> >> yes, absolutely, that is a best practice. if /var fills up, you don't >> want that to affect /. also, /tmp should be seperate, because its a DoS >> since /tmp can be written by any user, they could conceivably fill up /. >> the only case this would be ok, would be if you were installing on a >> smaller hard drive, which gives you less room to juggle around. >> >> jason PJK> Yep. My usual practice is to create a separate /var partition, PJK> create /var/tmp, and symlink /tmp to /var/tmp. I usaly do /usr/tmp -> /tmp /var/tmp -> /tmp and in /etc/fstab /dev/ad1s1f /tmp ufs rw,nodev,nosuid 2 2 For security reasons, because tmp is a all write dir. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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