Growing Logical Volumes

When performing an install I usually create several partitions in order to take advantage of additional mount options (noexec,nosuid,etc). The partitions I create usually include the following: / /var /usr /tmp /home /boot While working in the hosting industry I have investigated countless hacked systems. Exploits often get placed under /home/user where user is whatever user was exploited – or they get placed in /tmp. Having /home and /tmp mounted noexec, nosuid might have kept the exploits from running. The most common argument against multiple partitions is that you never know how to properly...