Andreas Leitner writes: > Even if you have several partitions, a root process should be able to > access all of them. So there should be no difference if you have only one > partition or several.
It is very unlikely that a runaway process, root or not, would be writing to more than one partition. If it has not filled the partition containing /tmp you will be able to kill it. If it has you can boot into a runlevel where the tmp partition is not mounted. > Yep. But chances are high, that even if you have several partitions and > one get's damaged, you still won't be able to boot. You will be able to boot as long as the partition containing the files necessary for booting is undamaged. That is why you want a seperate / partition. For a workstation I create three partitions: one for /, one for tmp, and one for everything else. the tmp partition gets mounted on /tmp, the "everything else" partition gets mounted on /usr, and /var and /home are symlinks from / into /usr. Give / and tmp a few hundred MB each and you will have far more than enough room without making a dent in a modern disk. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
