Russell Coker wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote:
>> PS: I myself like a seperate /usr but I wouldn't use it for my parents.
>> I do want a seperate /var and /home for them though so they can't DOS
>> the system by filling up their home.
> 
> How would filling up /home DOS the system?

At least a couple of years ago if you left /home with no free space, kdm (or 
something under the hood) would be unable to create ~/.Xauthority-* files, 
making it impossible to log into a graphical session.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



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