Seeing a lot of systemd-namespace-* directories in /tmp

Wed May 9 08:05:50 UTC 2012

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> during a running F17 I always see a lot of directories in /tmp called
> systemd-namespace-<some suffix> with owner root and colord. Can I remove
> them safely?

These are private tmp directories for various daemons.  They're part
of this new F17 feature:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ServicesPrivateTmp

They're only safe to delete if the service that is using them is no
longer running or otherwise no longer needs it.

-T.C.