Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.05.24 um 12:15 schrieb Barak A. Pearlmutter:

We have two separate issues here:

a/ /tmp-on-tmpfs
b/ time based clean-up of /tmp and /var/tmp

I think it makes sense to discuss/handle those separately.

Agreed.

I also don't see any issue with a/, at worst people will be annoyed
with it for some reason and can then change it back.

So it's a change I support.

I forgot to mention, that while I was sceptical of /tmp-on-tmpfs in the past, I nowadays basically enable it everywhere, even on smaller systems like PIs. I did run into odd issues like autopkgtest filling up /tmp and then various programs like Firefox behaving oddly and worked around this by using TMPDIR=/var/tmp for stuff that needed larger tmp files.

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