STIGUI
V-261279CAT II — Medium severitySV-261279r996322_rule

SLEM 5 must use a separate file system for /var.

Rule version SLEM-05-231015 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becoming full or failing.

Check

Verify that SLEM 5 has a separate file system/partition for "/var" with the following command:

     > grep /var /etc/fstab
     UUID=c4e898dd-6cd9-4091-a733-9435e505957a /var btrfs defaults,subvol=@/var,x-initrd.mount 0 0

If a separate entry for "/var" does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix

Create a separate file system/partition on SLEM 5 for "/var".

Migrate "/var" onto the separate file system/partition.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-261279
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-261279r996322_rule
Check ID
C-65008r996321_chk
Fix ID
F-64916r995703_fix