From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 27 7:57:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.linuxcare.com (mail.linuxcare.com [216.88.157.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2529E37B417 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from linuxcare.com (wiliweld.i.linuxcare.com [10.1.0.139]) by mail.linuxcare.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4238B1572 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C7D01E4.8F8BA807@linuxcare.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:24 -0800 From: Bill Organization: "Linux, A Way of Life !!!" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ? (and maybe a fourth too) References: <20020226152847.L25859-100000@roble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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