Big Brother tells me that Steven Lembark wrote:
>
> Use separate mount points for /var, /usr & /home. This keeps
> root down to mainly /etc, /dev, /bin, /sbin and /lib -- none of
> which is all that enormous. Short of writing the File From Hell
> to /tmp a 128MB root file system works well enough for me. I do
> put /usr & /opt on LVM but only because all the tools needed to
> revive the system are in /bin, /sbin & /lvm on the root.
After installation, do:
cd / ; mv tmp tmp.old ; ln -s /var/tmp .
reboot
rm -rf /tmp.old
Now you don't have to worry about root filling up at all...
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