general rules for partitioning

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:08:32AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> I use a separate /tmp partition as a matter of routine and haven't
> encountered any boot problems as a result. For security reasons I mount
> this partition with nodev and noexec, and doing *that* has resulted in a
> couple of issues:

I don't expect any problems that break things, but I wouldn't be surprised
if you occassionaly end up with files in /tmp on / -- underneath the mount
point.


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