On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:23:55PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > There may be a bit of a misconception or miscommunication here. > On Linux systems, /run is practically certaion to be mounted on > a tmpfs of some kind: its explicit purpose is to be volatile, > for this boot only. It is similar to /var/run, but one of its main > advantages is that it will always be cleaned upon boot. > See e.g. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html On most modern systems /var/run is a symlink to /run (or ../run, which is the same in practice) so they aren't similar but in fact identical. Other than that everything you said is 100% spot on, using anything run-related will result in data loss on reboot.
-- Colin Booth
