Re: scary, maybe
Ian Molton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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| Organization | The Dragon Roost |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:59:23 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] ("Dagmar d'Surreal") wrote: > > ...and unless you went out of your way to make the system reserve 0% > of the filesystem for use by root, a user trying that wouldn't be able > to kill the system--just piss off the other users. Just thought Id mention that, actually... I noticed that mke2fs wanted to reserve 5% of my disc. Out of 120GB, I felt that was a *bit* steep... I used tune2fs and reduced it to 256 blocks, which should be more than enough to allow booting on a DOSed system and to get running again... -- Unsubscribe: send email to [email protected] and put 'unsubscribe lfs-security' in the subject header of the message