Re: Third /tmp location ? (and maybe a fourth too)

From: Bill (bill@linuxcare.com)
Date: 02/27/02 

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:24 -0800
From: Bill <bill@linuxcare.com>
To: security@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 

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