Information
The nodev mount option specifies that the filesystem cannot contain special devices.
Since the /var filesystem is not intended to support devices, set this option to ensure that users cannot create a block or character special devices in /var
Solution
- IF - a separate partition exists for /var
Edit the /etc/fstab file and add nodev to the fourth field (mounting options) for the /var partition.
Example:
<device> /var <fstype> defaults,rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
Run the following command to remount /var with the configured options:
# mount -o remount /var