On Fri, Jul 10, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
/tmp is one of the weirder places in a system.
It is nice that FHS says it is not persistent across reboots, but if you have a workstation or server which is "never" (or at least, seldomly) rebooted, the directory can still fill up - and take away RAM from both oneself and other users.
tmpfs is not a RAM file system but a filesystem based on anonymous memory. This is how it has been implemented on SunOS un 1987 and I am _very_ sure it works the same on Linux.
In other words: if you have files that lay around in /tmp. this just eats up swap.
It can still fill up.
Correct. And today it can fill up your root partition preventing you from login or update to your system. So what? Thorsten
Well, so far it was not mentioned how big the tmpfs will be.
ciao Arvin
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