Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning
Russell Coker wrote:
> 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?
At least a couple of years ago if you left /home with no free space, kdm (or
something under the hood) would be unable to create ~/.Xauthority-* files,
making it impossible to log into a graphical session.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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