[Fedora] Re: how to automatically clean /tmp

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Thu Jan 28 15:18:51 UTC 2016



On 01/28/16 18:46, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> I still have to rid off of one of these two tmpfs
>
>   tmpfs  1633640  0 1633640 0% /run/user/989
>   tmpfs  1633640 20 1633620 1% /run/user/526
>
> I think I have to keep one of them since it is associated to my id (526)
> but I can't imagine what the other is for and how to avoid its creation.
> Googling didn't help much.

You will not want to, or be able to, get rid of those. 

/run is itself a tmpfs and the /run/user/$uid are created as needed by systemd, I think. 
This stores temporary associated with a user's running processes that only the user should
have access to.  Placing that info in /tmp or another area may present a security issue. 
/run/user/$uid is restricted to that particular UID. 

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