[Techtalk] Partitioning for security questions

Terry tech at futurecourse.com
Thu Dec 26 15:39:30 UTC 2013


On 03/12/2013 10:19, A. Mani wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:17 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>> KDE does not start after that modification.
>>
>> Requires tweaking
>
> Forgot to add this :
>
> Basically I shifted /tmp to a new partition
> changed fstab, /etc/apt/apt.conf in Kubuntu (pre-existing install)
>
> Did not do anything to /var/tmp
>
>
>
> Best
>
> A. Mani
>

Well, I am certainly no expert but you might want to check what always 
gets me - /tmp permissions.  I forget to change the permissions on /tmp 
to 1777.  See if that clears it up.  I have seen some strange things 
with wrong /tmp permissions.

-- 
Terry


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