Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> 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.
That is a DOS against the user not against the system.
If the problem you are concerned with is the user being unable to login then
the solution would be to allocate all possible space to /home, which probably
means having /home on a large root filesystem.
If the important problem is having user A not DOS user B then you can give at
least one of those two users their own private filesystem. I run several
systems where some users have private filesystems to either protect them from
other users or to protect other users from them.
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