> >> Its great if a user floods /tmp and you email system wont accept email anymore
> >> because the /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/mqueue is full.
>
> GM> Bullshit. It's your fault for not putting quotas on it.
>
> For /var/spool/mail yes but for /var/spool/mqueue no - all the queue is
> usually owned by root. And many other files are owned by root too.
Read the first line.. "...if a user floods /tmp and you(r) email...".. A
user can't flood tmp if he's got a 5meg quota.. :)
I really dont advocate a single partition for servers.. I've got a big
server with 8.. But as far as work stations go.. I almost always setup
/,swap or /,/tmp,swap...
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