I have occasionally found it handy to have /tmp on a separate 
partition.  Mainly to ensure that /tmp doesn't fill up accidentally 
which can lead to all sorts of unpleasantness and complicate recovery.

Same applies pretty much across the board and bi directionally.

Though separating out partitions of course comes with slightly increased 
complexity.

Austin

James Finstrom wrote:
> This was discussed a week or so ago (sorta). Generaly you want to keep
> home on it's own partition. Never seen the rest but could see some
> logic with var and opt not really tmp
>
> On 4/27/09, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>   
>> I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading
>> the "Securing Debian Manual" (
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/), it recommends
>> separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with some
>> of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how to set up separate partitions,
>> and they felt that it was unnecessary to have separate partitions for a
>> production server (regardless if it is on Linode or not).
>>
>> I am interested in any opinions on the subject from this list.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>     
>
>   

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