Hi
> There is a way to overflow / filesystem even is quota is enabled.
>
> Just make many hard links (for example /bin/sh) to /tmp/
>
> for ($q=0;$q<100000;$q++){
> system ("ln /bin/sh /tmp/ln$q");
> }
>
> Because /tmp directory usually owned by root that why quotas has no effect.
> *Directory* size of /tmp can be grown up to available space on / filesystem.
>
> Any way to fix it?
Haven't tested this, but are you sure it fills the filesystem up -
all a hard link is, is a file with the same inode as the
original file (correct me if I'm wrong) - therefore it
doesn't actually use any space other than that required
to store the file entry.
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Regards,
Jay Tribick <[email protected]>
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