On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 07:42:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Historically, deleting anything in /var/tmp that hadn't been accessed in > over seven days was a perfectly reasonable and typical configuration. > These days, we have the complication that it's fairly common to turn off > atime updates for performance reasons, which makes it a bit harder to > implement that policy when /var/tmp isn't its own partition and thus > inherits that setting from the rest of the system.
Apologies for being a bit late to this, but is this true? relatime-type setups will still update atime if the time between the previous update and the access is larger than some threshold, so you lose some degree of granularity but the rough policy should still apply.
