Does this effect us suse 7.2 pro users? http://securityportal.com/research/exploits/linux/suse/20000703-suse-tmp.txt Second , I used to have a seperate /tmp partition but suse needed more space, and I wasn't ready to pop another 2G window partition to give it between 500M and 1G for a freaking temp directory. What is the benefit to having a seperate partition for the /tmp directory Note: I am not talking about /home/usr/tmp but /tmp and I am thinking it would need to be 1.0G right? my old partitions prior to suse were (at the time I had 128MB of ram) : /dev/hdc15 3.2G 1.5G 1.6G 48% / none 0 0 0 - /proc /dev/hdc3 63M 2.8M 59M 5% /boot none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts /dev/hdc14 242M 3.3M 226M 1% /home /dev/hda1 2.0G 584M 1.4G 29% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc1 2.0G 416k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda5 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_d /dev/hdc5 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_d2 /dev/hda6 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_e /dev/hdc6 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_e2 /dev/hda7 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_f /dev/hdc7 1.8G 64k 1.8G 0% /mnt/win_f2 /dev/hdc8 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_g /dev/hdc9 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdc10 2.0G 64k 2.0G 0% /mnt/win_i /dev/hdc13 242M 4.0M 255M 2% /root /dev/hdc11 241M 17k 228M 0% /tmp Current setup is suse and (512MB ram) : /dev/hdc12 7.0G 5.8G 888M 87% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts /dev/hdc3 65M 2.4M 59M 4% /boot /dev/hdc10 688M 355M 299M 55% /home /dev/hdc11 242M 7.1M 222M 4% /root shmfs 665M 0 664M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 2.0G 2.0G 73M 97% /windows/C /dev/hda5 2.0G 1.4G 639M 69% /windows/D /dev/hda6 2.0G 1.7G 391M 81% /windows/E /dev/hda7 1.8G 1.8G 86M 96% /windows/F /dev/hdc1 2.0G 619M 1.3G 31% /windows/G /dev/hdc5 2.0G 1.4G 649M 69% /windows/H /dev/hdc6 2.0G 1.9G 156M 93% /windows/I /dev/hdc7 2.0G 93M 1.9G 5% /windows/J /dev/hdc8 2.0G 567M 1.4G 28% /windows/K also what is shmfs? is that swap?