Creating a persistent mount point '/tmp' partition in Aria Automation

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

As part of a penetration test, there might be a requirement to create a separate persistent mount point /tmp partition on the Aria Automation appliance.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.x

Resolution

The disk layout in Aria Automation is managed internally, and it's not recommended to manually modify the /etc/fstab file or manually mount additional mount points. 

Aria Automation utilizes tmpfs, a temporary file system that resides in volatile memory (RAM) instead of disk storage. This allows for faster access to files since they're stored in memory, but the data is not persistent across reboots