On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 09:49:17PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Andrey Rakhmatullin (2024-05-06 19:14:40) > > On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > > > tmpfiles.d snippets can be defined to cleanup on a timer _anything_, > > > > > > It's a question of what the *default* behaviour should be. > > > > > > For whatever reason, a lot of people who process large data use > > > /var/tmp/FOO/ as a place to store information that should not be > > > backed up, but also should not just disappear. > > To be honest I'm greatly surprised by this idea, and by the suggestion > > that a lot of people do this, to me this is very similar by that half-joke > > about people storing useful files in the Recycle Bin. > > I'm doing exactly that. I use paper I already printed stuff on but which were > misprints or which are no longer useful to me and are just destined for the > recycling bin to write stuff on that is important to me. After I'm done with > my > work on this scrap paper I decide what I want to keep and copy to permanent > storage and what I want to really throw away. I actually meant the Windows feature :)
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