On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live > > > in RAM, > > > > That's not the default in Debian. Of course, it might have been set up > > that way on the OP's system. > > > <snip> > > This is an education for me. You are quite right that /tmp is not in > tmpfs, but other things are, including /dev/shm, which has the same, > "liberal" permissions as /tmp. > > So where *does* /tmp reside?
Depends on how you partition things during the installation. It could be a separate file system on disk, or just a plain old directory inside the root file system. The "default" (as far as that term has any meaning) is to be a plain old directory.
