However, if your system gets hacked, having everything under one
umbrella makes it very easy for the perpetrator to just fill that
partition up with an infinite file write rendering the sytem useless,
even to you as root. Partitioning helps protect you from some attacks
by limiting the amount of disk space in various partitions.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 9:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
>
> > > Why? Well, this gives 2GB for user files and downloads
> and whatnot.. more
> > > than enough I think. The other 11GB goes on root... if you don't
> > > specifically make a /var, or /usr or any other partition
> for a directory
> > > off the root directory, it all becomes a part of the /
> partition... make
> > > sense? For example, that 11GB is being shared by /var,
> /etc, /usr, /sbin,
> > > and so forth. That way I don't have to worry about how
> much to give /var,
> > > of if I've given /sbin too much, or any other problem
> associated with
> > > defining limits for directories. I always found that
> silly, tried it
> > > once, and it pissed me off so much I reinstalled just to
> make (to me) a
> > > *proper* directory structure (which is swap, /home, and /
> and that's it).
