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Re: what to take off the root partition

From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55(at)pobox.com>
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 17:41:00 EST

On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> If
> some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as
> root,
> it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even
> /usr than /.

On this line... Making /tmp a separate filesystem is often recommended.

Rick

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