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

Wed Apr 25 03:01:44 CEST 2012

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:09 -0400, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+
+> '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.
+
+As long as it's still optional. With only 2GB of ram, I prefer to
+keep /tmp on disk, since I use it for things like dvd creation etc.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+