On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 17:35 +0000, sixpack13 wrote: > if you want to have an automatical cleanage for /var/tmp: > ============================================= > 1. add the following line to your /etc/fstab > > "tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 > 0 0" > > - without the ' " ' ! - > > 2. sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/* > > 3. sudo mount /var/tmp > > 3b. check with: > df -h | grep var
I wouldn't do that. At this time, /var/tmp is expected to be on permanent storage, some things might expect data to remain available. Some things might generate more temp files than your RAM (especially if you burn DVDs or Blurays). If you need to use a temporary file to debug a problem, you lose it during crashes. Better to take a more considered way to clean up *old* files. When they made /tmp use tmpfs, that caused a plethora of such problems. I don't seem to suffer the problems I see commonly mentioned on this list (filling up hard drives, the wrong kernel booting, continually having to manually reconfigure grub, etc), the kind of things that are supposed to take care of themselves, automatically. Probably because I haven't painted myself into a corner by doing oddball things to my system in the first place. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
