Kim, > Perhaps the first question is, why do you want to slice up the file > system in this way? > > I would consider it unusual to split off /tmp, /var, /var/tmp and > /var/mail in this way unless you were shifting a very large amount of mail. I use this guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.9
> And then to separate disks, not all on the same volume/disk. Because I can't access the disk via fdisk or parted. I'll investigate this, but AFAICT it's a VPS specific issue. So the only option I have is to use several disks. I assume those are not separate in a physical sense. > As you seem to be running a Xen VM, I would expect you are not going to > get a performance increase. It makes it much more likely that one of > these file systems is going to fill and halt which ever process that > doing the work in that file system. I'm trying to secure the system, not to get a perf boost. Let me know If I can achieve both. > Ok, for each new file system you will have to migrate them from the > 'root' disk/partition to the new disk/partition. Yep. > 2) mount each file system, eg under /tmp > 3) copy the data from the 'root' file system to the new one > eg rsync -av /tmp/ /mnt/ > 4) unmount the file system from /mnt This sounds strange. I will use my data if I unmount it. Is this correct? Maybe I should do the following: a) use my one-root-partition-fstab; b) mount a fresh disk: mkdir /mnt/tmp; mount /dev/xvdf /mnt/tmp c) rsync -av /tmp /mnt/tmp d) repeat the trick for another disk: mkdir /mnt/var; mount /dev/xvdg /mnt/var e)rsync -av /var /mnt/var [...] n) update /etc/fstab n+1) reboot What do you think? Will it work? How to separate /var/mail from /var in this case? Cheers _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
