Re: [tlug] join /tmp and /var

[Pietro Zuco <pietro@example.com>]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 20:00, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:

> A big reason why you want to partition away /tmp is to avoid launching a
> denial of service attack on yourself by inadvertently filling up the
> partition /tmp is on. Well, guess what--/var is the easiest partition to
> fill up on a Unix system, and also the only partition that an outsider can
> legitimately fill up for you. (Think "/var/spool/mail" and "big
> attachments".) So you're getting all the hassle of partitioning, without
> much of the merits. Why not just make the entire hard disk one big
> partition and be done with it? At least you aren't wasting any space that
> way.

I'm not worry about denial of service attack or other attacks, because the 
notebook is in a network that is not connected to internet and the only 
person that will hack it is me :)
I was thinking about separate /tmp and /var in different partitions, because I 
need to copy from CD and network big files and delete them relatively quick, 
and I don't want to fragment or corrupt the whole system.

I'm worry only about the consecuences over performance.

Thanks
-Pietro-