Re: /tmp and /var/tmp in Ubuntu

2025-05-21 Thread Nick Rosbrook
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > Hello Nick, > > Mounting /tmp as tmpfs makes sense on systems that are not very memory > constrained. I have been using this for the last years on all my systems. > > I am wondering which mount option shall be used. I have tended to

Re: /tmp and /var/tmp in Ubuntu

2025-05-21 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
Hello Nick, Mounting /tmp as tmpfs makes sense on systems that are not very memory constrained. I have been using this for the last years on all my systems. I am wondering which mount option shall be used. I have tended to mount with nosuid,nodev. But there are some rare use cases, e.g. with chro

/tmp and /var/tmp in Ubuntu

2025-05-21 Thread Nick Rosbrook
Hi, ### Background In the 24.10 cycle, Ubuntu began defaulting to /tmp as a tmpfs (interestingly, Ubuntu was poised to do this many releases ago[1], but apparently did not go through with it at the time), and /var/tmp being cleaned up on a timer. This was done at the same time as Debian[2], and a