On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message , Simon Burge writes:
> >
> >mount -o nodev ... ?
>
> I'll have to think hard about the interactions here -- it would be some
> sort of loopback mount, which means that the special devices would be
> recognized under one name, but not under the other.  I *think* it
> works, but I want to mull it some more.  Thanks.

Um...does the ftp upload directory have to be on your root partition? This
seems to me a bad idea anyway, since that would allow users to fill up
your root, which is never terribly pleasant.

Or is there some reason you need devices on a non-root partition? I mount
all of my partitions except / with nodev, and have been doing this for
years without problems. (I also mount all but / and /usr with nosuid,
though this has earned me the odd complaint from time to time.)

cjs
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