On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 08:29:57PM +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Linux Experts, > > I've recently passed from Fedora 20 to Fedora 23 on my laptop. > > I've a separate partition for /tmp that I'm used to see it wiped out at > any reboot on my previous installation but now this is never wiped out. > > This is a real partition: > > /dev/sda10 5029504 1154204 3596772 25% /tmp > > whereas previously it was a tmpfs partition. I've read on the web that > after Fedora 20 the tmpfs has been dropped in favor of real partition > but I was expecting anacron/cron entry that wipe the content of the > partition at boot but my system doesn't have any. > > It is also difficult to create my own anacron/cron entry because this > should take effect before the system starts and create its temp > files/sockets in there. > > I'm also puzzled because I also have a couple of tmpfs partitions: > > tmpfs 1633640 0 1633640 0% /run/user/989 > tmpfs 1633640 16 1633624 1% /run/user/526 > > that I don't what they are for and if I can (and how) rid of them. > > Probably I could add an entry like this > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,seclabel 0 0 > > in /etc/fstab but this would means a waste of the space I currently have > reserved for /tmp (4Gb not much but I would prefer to use them). > > So there is a way to wipe out the /tmp partition before it has been > mounted and the system creates its files and use the current partition > for it? Couple of points. I don't think you can reserve a partition for the use of a tmpfs. It uses your RAM memory and swap space instead. You could add /dev/sda10 as another swap partition. Then perhaps add the fstab entry. However, I think systemd has a way mount /tmp as a tmpfs without having an fstab entry. If you want to use your partition as /tmp but have it cleaned out at boot, check the manpage for tmpfiles.d Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
