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Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning



On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> PS: I myself like a seperate /usr but I wouldn't use it for my parents.
> I do want a seperate /var and /home for them though so they can't DOS
> the system by filling up their home.

How would filling up /home DOS the system?

The only common program I can think of which fails hard when it runs out of 
disk space is Squid.  I expect that some DB servers also have serious problems 
but I don't think that they will be running a DB server on their home 
workstation.

My experience with systems I run for people who aren't computer experts (which 
includes my parents) is that filling /home causes various parts of their 
desktop environment to cease working (thus effectively DOSing the system) and 
they also just can't save files.

I have a separate partition for /home on such workstations, but this is just 
for ease of backups.

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