Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> 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. no, by default ext3/4 reserves 5% of the disk space for root user. so a regular user cannot fill up a partition