Subject: Re: Q: file systems & sizes
To: Wojtek <wojtek@wojtek.prointer.pl>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/02/1999 17:50:58
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Wojtek wrote:
> > I like to keep my / and /usr stable (with no files changing) and put temp
> > files, mail, logs, etc. on /tmp and /var (and /home).
> But i think /tmp and /var could be on the same partition (when not using
> mfs), by linking /var/tmp to /tmp

I don't want any user who can fill up /tmp to be able to fill up /var (and
stop logging and mail operations).

  -jm