-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 18.11.2004 at 23:07 -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote: > > There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good > > idea to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition. > > Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a > logfile, filling up your entire / partition. > > I also learned that if you run a mail server, having /var/mail as an > extra partition is nice, too. If you have the same logfile spew, you > will still have a place to spool incoming mail. Ditto for news, of course - I have /var/spool/news on a separate partition. A high turnover of a large number of small files ... keep it separate. In fact, the new Sarge installer had an option for a 'news' spool partition type. It chooses appropriate block sizes etc. for the filesystem. Dave. - -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBnhkAnhBnac0o2pIRAgp2AJ4/KOIgabxg542Nf7UmRfsWsWraQwCg6aod wnRcFFNMSp4leuvSdRJTGPE= =Y+5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
