From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 13:20:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA9937B406 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alex.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GY88HP02.11Q; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:20:13 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:21:03 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <15118143729.20020624222103@dds.nl> To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: root partition In-Reply-To: <20020624195803617.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> References: <20020624195803617.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> >> 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