On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > PS: I myself like a seperate /usr but I wouldn't use it for my parents. > I do want a seperate /var and /home for them though so they can't DOS > the system by filling up their home.
How would filling up /home DOS the system? The only common program I can think of which fails hard when it runs out of disk space is Squid. I expect that some DB servers also have serious problems but I don't think that they will be running a DB server on their home workstation. My experience with systems I run for people who aren't computer experts (which includes my parents) is that filling /home causes various parts of their desktop environment to cease working (thus effectively DOSing the system) and they also just can't save files. I have a separate partition for /home on such workstations, but this is just for ease of backups. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112220031.56019.russ...@coker.com.au
