Re: *nix partitioning practices

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:45:18 -0400
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would also add a /tmp partition.  Having root fill-up isn't pleasant 
> Agreed.  I'd also point out that having a separate partition for /tmp allows
> you to set /tmp as noexec which foils a healthy percentage of script kiddie
> exploit scripts.

Also many modern OS's have a special file system type for /tmp that
doesn't bother syncing so access can be a little faster in general.

-- 
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]>         |  Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/                |  and a sheep voting on
+1 416 425 1212     (DoD#0082)    (eNTP)   |  what's for dinner.
-- 
Eat sushi frequently. - Avi
[email protected] is the human contact address.
[email protected] is the list posting address.
See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options:
http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.