[COLUG] Partiton Size

[Duane]

Edward Dunagin wrote:

> Am I missing something? When we had the smaller, least expensive hard
> drives, I used to split my partitions up. But now, I have an
> inexpensive 122GB H/D and do not set up any partitions and use all of
> it.
> 
> Again, am I missing something?

Once upon a time there was best practice thinking in splitting things up
since you could prevent programs from executing and gaining root
privileges unless it was on a certain partition etc, these days with all
the common/popular scripting languages this is a moot point because the
main binary for the language is usually able to do both regardless of
what partition the script is on.

In fact I've had problems with debian/ubuntu based systems with /tmp set
to noexec as the pre/post installer scripts expect /tmp to be exec, this
"feature" was reported but I don't think anything has been done about it.

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