[96018] in RedHat Linux List
Re: creating /temp partition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Buday)
Fri Oct 23 04:17:03 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:16:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tomas Buday <tomas@snt.sk>
To: Statux <statux@bigfoot.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <01c201bdfd90$ac3c68c0$6461e4d0@nb1>
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sure i know....but i still think it's better
to have /home and /tmp on separate partitions.
...i guess it's always better to do more than less
for the security of your system.
...i can think of a situation when not even quota
would be very helpful....unless you give a diskspace
of half a meg for your poor users.
> So turn on quotas! Make sense?
> Do you know what a quota is?
>
> >
> >it's always better to have /home and /tmp on
> >a separate partition as any ordinary users have
> >write permissions in these directories.
> >
> >imagine running sctipt like the following by an
> >ordinary user in /tmp or /home.
> >
> >while (:)
> >do
> >mkdir abc
> >cd abc
> >done
> >
> >if /tmp or /home wouldn't be mounted on separate partitions,
> >i guess you might be in serious trouble.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Statux wrote:
> >
> >> You can only mount a certain number... why did you make a temp partition?
> I
> >> have a swap and a root and a boot.. and i don't even need a seperate boot
> >> part.
> >> >
> >> >I created a new partition on my machine and I'm trying to mount it as
> >> >/temp. I've to create the entry in fstab both using the control panel
> >> >tool and by editing it manually. I did run mke2fs on the partition.
> >> >I get an error during boot saying that there are too many mounted
> >> >partitions. Any thoughts on this one? Please send replies both to me
> >> >and the list. Thanks!
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