Questions tagged [tmp]
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How is the /tmp directory cleaned up?
How is the /tmp directory cleaned up? Is it automatic? If so, how frequently is it cleaned up?
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What is the "t" letter in the output of "ls -ld /tmp"?
When running the command ls -ld /tmp, the output would be:
drwxrwxrwt 30 root root 20480 Mar 11 14:17 /tmp
So I have two main questions:
What is the letter t after the permissions?
As far as I know /tmp is used to create temporary files related…
user255675
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How to clean /tmp?
rizhas@rizhas-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 67G 58G 5,2G 92% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1,5G 12K 1,5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 303M 1,2M 302M …
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Not enough space on /tmp
I'm not able to run update manager as I get an error saying that there is not enough free space in the /tmp directory. I've practically cleaned out the tmp directory but the error persists.
here's df-h
/dev/loop0 13G 11G 952M 92% /
udev …
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Good filesystem for /tmp?
I'm thinking of having /tmp on its own partition... what would be a good filesystem to format it with?
The reason I ask is because the data being stored in /tmp is not permanent, so I don't need journaling, a fancy index, or anything.
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How can I make /tmp executable?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. When I clicked in the Update Manager Upgrade a message box apeared:
Cannot run the upgrade. This usually is caused by a system where /tmp is mounted noexec. Please remount without…
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How to allow snap applications to access /tmp folder?
Usually I'm avoiding snap-based applications, but sometime I need them.
For example - Markdown Lint Tool is shipped only as Snap named mdl.
It works great when files are in home folder -
$ echo "# header" > ~/test.md
$ /snap/bin/mdl ~/test.md ;…
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Why doesn't /tmp use tmpfs?
I have loads of RAM and I use very little. I also do record some screencasts with gtk-recordmydesktop, which by default saves to /tmp while recording. I assumed that it would mean storing to RAM as much as possible, but then I actually checked and…
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Accidentally deleted tmp folder
i was trying to run
sudo rm -r ./tmp
but instead typed
sudo rm -r /tmp
Will it be fixed by running?
sudo mkdir /tmp
if i do what permissions should i give it?
ps: i didnt log out of my system yet
Adonis K. Kakoulidis
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How to make Downloads folder behave like a temp directory
In order to reduce disk space usage, I want to automate a temporary clean in my Downloads folder. I figured two ways to do so:
1) Changing the configurations of firefox, etc. to save files to /tmp/ (this would require, for safety, changing the…
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files created then deleted at every second in tmp directory
By mistake I noticed that in /tmp directory are continuously created some files then immediately deleted. Using a succession of ls -l /tmp I managed to catch the created files:
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 2 19:37 YlOmPA069G
-rw------- 1…
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Can I delete /var/tmp/mkinitramfs-* files?
I notice that my /var/tmp folder has occupied by 9.3GB space on my Ubuntu 16.04.2. Particularly, there are a bunch of mkinitramfs_* folders taken most of the space in the tmp folder. I looked into them, and they seem to be the temporary files for…
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Using a cronjob to clean /tmp
Is it safe to use a bash script and a cronjob to empty /tmp automatically, or should I do this differently?
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How to open files in /tmp with snap applications
I thought running something like snap connect app_name:/tmp would work but it didn't. Is there any way to accomplish this?
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/tmp in tmpfs, how do this only with systemd?
I have now a laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 and i love it. i have mounted /tmp as tmpfs via /etc/fstab line as this:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0
now, i like to know how i can do this…
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