On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Ken Wilson wrote:
> 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')
They still have tobe root to totally fill a disk
> > -----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).
>
>
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