Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Weldon Goree <weldon@b.rontosaur.us> writes:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:02 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> I think having / and /tmp share the same file system is a bad idea,
>> because then writing lots of stuff to /tmp would potentially fill up the
>> root file system (that typically also includes /var) and then cause a
>> lot of breakage.
>
> If only ext*fs supported quotas...

Aren't quotas only for non-root and per file system? I think we're
already safe from non-root filling up / because of the reserved 5%.


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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