Creating partitions on a vps?

[Easywebdev]

Hi folks.
I'm just about done locking down my vps and have come to a sticky patch.
I'm not familiar with vps filesystems (vzfs) so I have no idea how to go about creating a partition for /tmp that I can mount with noexec,nosuid etc. I know what to do with a dedicated server with reiserfs/ext2 etc but this vps stuff has me stumped.

Anyone done this or can it even be done from inside the vps?

[JPC-Les]

There are some different ways to do this however the simplest method would be to add the following lines to your /etc/fstab

none /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
none /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev/nosuid,noexec 0 0

[Easywebdev]

Hi Les and thank you for your answer.
I had thought of doing that but I am on the discovery plan and memory is tight enough so I would rather not use tmpfs.
Another point is /dev/shm is normally the mount point for tmpfs therefore I would rather create block devices for those three mount points.

Any advice or options on how to create block devices within a vps?

[JPC-Masood]

Please open a support ticket and I will setup this for you.