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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> This is really bogus reasoning.  The / partition will never fill up
> because only root can fill it up, and there is a 10% reserve for root
> to use.  You can fit a lot of password file entries into 3M of a 30M FS.

  syslog runs as root, and it is big source of filled filesystems.

  Certainly not bogus reasoning.

Tom