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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 18.04
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Disk Partitioning
Ensure /home Located On Separate Partition
Ensure /home Located On Separate Partition
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Ensure /home Located On Separate Partition
Low Severity
If user home directories will be stored locally, create a separate partition for
/home
at installation time (or migrate it later using LVM). If
/home
will be mounted from another system such as an NFS server, then creating a separate partition is not necessary at installation time, and the mountpoint can instead be configured later.