Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:40:34 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <CAHu1Y73n6uF5uJa8XBt%2Bn311KqVi=rr=XzAug_LjryNZcOQE1g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210213045614.71f2202b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAAwGzWvpKnNga60ywPRj1J4rN_CJkcGwboTkcaTwoNrRC6HBhA@mail.gmail.com> <055e547a-c57a-048e-5458-4cf60b31ca7a@gmail.com> <20210213045614.71f2202b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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As usual, the "many-wayed fellow" is lucid and precise. On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 7:56 PM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > If you have things like /tmp, /var/log, /home and so rooted in > the same partition, a "runaway process" could fill your whole > disk just writing to /tmp, and you wouldn't know, because a log > file can no longer be written. Also users might be affected and > cannot save their work files as /home runs out of space (simply > because / is full). > I'm also an adherent of mounting world-writable mount points (/tmp, /var/tmp) noexec,nosuid. This works unless you are building from source, and make buildworld fails because it executes some things in /tmp. > Especially on systems providing server functionalities, this kind > of problem is not desired. Sub-optimal, as in disastrous. --=20 "Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata
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