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Old 13th February 2010
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
one has to use multiple slices for a single FreeBSD install.
A reason for example is that you don't want an attacker to fill your "/var/log" logs with junk and thus leaving no more space for "/var/mail".
Both slices and partitions have fixed sizes. So partitions suffice and you can have those on slices 3 and 4 on a single slice. An attacker would only fill /var/log/ and /var/mail/ would be left untouched.
And why not prevent the attacker from filling the logs in the first place by rejecting repeated connections or errors?
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