I have seen these files mount up. In the tmp directory. Now are these erased at reboot and automatically cleaned. If so, there's definitely no need to delete them, just not copy to a backup or archive.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 1:11 PM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2022-12-30 at 12:57 -0500, Bill C wrote: > > I usually use 'rm -rf /temp/*' and have been warned against it. I > > haven't seen any problems I know of happening because of this. > > Owing to how file unlinking works in UNIX/Linux systems, if a process > has a temporary file open when you delete it, it won't be removed until > the process terminates. However it's unwise to rely on this when a > temporary file might be closed and re-opened, including by a different > process. That could lead to unpredictable behaviour because of race > conditions. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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