Re: Partitioning hard drives

[Jeremy Turner <jeremy@linuxwebguy.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote:
> There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good idea
> to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition. 

Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a
logfile, filling up your entire / partition.

I also learned that if you run a mail server, having /var/mail as an
extra partition is nice, too.  If you have the same logfile spew, you
will still have a place to spool incoming mail.

Jeremy