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V-257860CAT II — Medium severitySV-257860r1044940_rule

RHEL 9 must mount /boot with the nodev option.

Rule version RHEL-09-231095 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

The only legitimate location for device files is the "/dev" directory located on the root partition. The only exception to this is chroot jails.

Check

Verify that the "/boot" mount point has the "nodev" option with the following command:

$ mount | grep '\s/boot\s'

/dev/sda1 on /boot type xfs (rw,nodev,relatime,seclabel,attr2)

If the "/boot" file system does not have the "nodev" option set, this is a finding.

Fix

Modify "/etc/fstab" to use the "nodev" option on the "/boot" directory.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-257860
Group title
SRG-OS-000368-GPOS-00154
Rule ID
SV-257860r1044940_rule
Check ID
C-61601r1044939_chk
Fix ID
F-61525r925566_fix