Why should I make a separate partition for /tmp?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/442383/w...

Question links:
[partitions]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_parti...
[/tmp]: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem...
[/var]: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem...
[so on]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/...
[ext4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
[journaling]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling...
[/home]: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem...
[ext4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
[taught]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/...
[caching]: https://superuser.com/questions/235535/i...
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