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[ale] VM guest partitioning practices
- Subject: [ale] VM guest partitioning practices
- From: damon at damtek.com (Damon L. Chesser)
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:32:55 -0500
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That is why I use LVM. Make a LVvar, LVopt, etc as needed.
The need is dependant on the app. Like /opt/VENDORAPPNAME/data/log
the size and split is dependent on the use, but I think I am repeating
myself. Oh oh, recursive!
On 12/09/2014 12:23 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:58 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com
> <mailto:leamhall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Keep in mind that some security practices require separate
> filesystems. DoD STIGs, at least.
>
>
> That's not really a concern here. It's more "well what if process X
> goes crazy and fills the system up with a log file, won't it take out
> the rest of the OS if it's all on one partition?"
>
>
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