(In reply to Bernhard Wiedemann from comment #3) > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf configures /tmp to not be cleaned > (there was a long discussion on this some years ago > with people losing files from the unexpected auto-cleaner) > ok but the pb is still there ; - opensuse must send an alert when a partition is almost full . this for any partition . - you must force the apps using /home/<user>/tmp/ is there a mean for a user to declare in its environment a kind of alias between /tmp/ and /home/<user>/tmp/ ? thanks