Re: scary, maybe

Ian Molton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
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...
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