[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] many systemd temporary directories

Tue Apr 24 22:51:09 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 24/04/12 21:27 did gyre and gimble:
+> Am 24.04.2012 20:51, schrieb Juergen Harms:
+>> I just saw that systemd creates (and does not purge) lots of directories like
+>> /tmp/systemd-namespace-<uniqueid>/ - I now have nearly 50 of them (one
+>> partial explanation might be that I did quite some re-booting these last days).
+>>
+>> Nothing serious, they are small - but nevertheless ... Is this normal,
+>> shouldnt there be some automatic purging mechanism?
+>>
+>> Juergen
+>>
+> Maybe we should default to /tmp being on tmpfs so that
+> this gets purged on every reboot? This would also be more
+> in accordance with FHS imho.
+
+This is one of my goals for mga3 (I have it in my notes for the
+technical specs discussion that will come), but certainly not for mga2
+as this is quite a big change and some apps may have to be patched to
+use /var/tmp instead etc. if they store large things in there.
+
+Col
+
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