Re: what to take off the root partition

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Subject: Re: what to take off the root partition
From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:41:00 -0500
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On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

 If
some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running asroot,
it can fill up a filesystem.  Better that this be /home, /var, or even
/usr than /.



On this line... Making /tmp a separate filesystem is often recommended.

Rick

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