/tmp files

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2015, jd1008 sent:
> Interesting obeservation, after I disabled the creation and mount a 
> tmpfs on /tmp TODAY.
> $ cd /tmp
> $ ls -ltr
> total 1264K
> drwx------  2 jd   jd      4096 Dec 31  1969 orbit-jd/
> -rw-------. 1 root root       0 Oct  8 13:15 yum.log
> -rwx------. 1 root root     663 Oct  8 13:47 ks-script-DhSaAL*
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 Oct  8 14:50 hsperfdata_root/
> -rw-------. 1 root root 1255957 Oct  8 15:35 yum_save_tx.2014-10-08.15-35.pQVxxn.yumtx
> -rw-r--r--  1 jd   jd         0 Feb 19 11:00 qtsingleapp-smplay-ca73-3f0-lockfile
> drwx------  3 root root    4096 Feb 19 12:45 systemd-private-186b844601e2408eaf31371607e83295-rtkit-daemon.service-jSJb1H/
> drwx------  3 root root    4096 Feb 19 12:45 systemd-private-186b844601e2408eaf31371607e83295-cups.service-fz1pho/
> drwx------  3 root root    4096 Feb 19 12:45 systemd-private-186b844601e2408eaf31371607e83295-ntpd.service-p2YLgg/
> drwx------  3 root root    4096 Feb 19 12:45 systemd-private-186b844601e2408eaf31371607e83295-colord.service-4x8X99/
> drwx------  2 jd   jd      4096 Feb 19 12:46 ssh-esVxvDC58XKz/
> prw-------  1 root root       0 Feb 19 12:46 hogsuspend|
> srwxr-xr-x  1 jd   jd         0 Feb 19 12:46 qtsingleapp-smplay-ca73-3f0=
> drwx------  2 jd   jd      4096 Feb 19 12:46 kde-jdiXm3Tn/
> 
> So, how come files dated from Oct 8th of 2014 and last Dec are still
> in /tmp,when I only disabled tmpfs for /tmp today?

The most obvious guess would be that /tmp was an ordinary directory,
back them, and more recently tmpfs was mounted over the top of it.

Was your current OS already installed back then?

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