On 9 November 2025 18:35:34 GMT, Hendrik Boom

>Why? well, they no longer need to be little. But it is useful
>to make them separate.
>
>Occasinally a runaway program can fill disk space. This makes
>a lot of activities impossible because they rely on there being
>disk space available. But with separate partitions the damage
>is linited.
>
>I have once filled up /tmp and the shell could no longer perform
>all of its features, which meant that a lot of scripts no longer
>worked. But I could avoid those and get soe things done anyway.
>Certainy enough to investigate and remedy the problem.
>
>Roughly speaking, having separate, limited-size partitions
>restricts the consequences of resource exhaustion and gives you
>opportunities for recovery you might not have otherwise.

This, I would never leave /tmp on the root filesystem. Once you've had a runaway program filling the logs - you'd have that policy too.

Simon