Questions tagged [tmp]
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What does Linux do when the /tmp directory is flooded?
From my knowledge of the `/tmp` directory, it is cleared on reboot.
I'm unsure what happens to the living host whenever the /tmp folder is flooded (put to the max storage capacity) - does Linux have ...
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Shred files in tmpfiles.d
After searching the tmpfiles.d, its seems like there is a limited number of option to erase the files/directories.
I want to totally erase the temporary directories with a shred like command, is there ...
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Is there a way to redirect files that match a certain pattern to another directory?
Gnome libsoup is creating a ton of directories in /tmp on the form grilo-plugin-cache-*/
There's an open issue about it, but it has been open for two years, and the developer does not seem to agree ...
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Unable to delete root-owned file under /tmp
The file and folder are owned by root but I did sudo chmod ugo+rw on both, which I confirmed with ls -l.
Still, I cannot remove the file as normal user.
❯ ls -ld /tmp /tmp/perm
drwxrwxrwt 46 root root ...
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How to set up /var/tmp
This is a very stupid question but how can we set up /var/tmp? Is there a special way to do it or will just creating the directory suffice?
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tmp on tmpfs: fstab vs tmp.mount with systemd
To have /tmp on tmpfs, I know I can use an entry in /etc/fstab, but I do not understand the role of /etc/default/tmpfs mentioned sometimes, and in what case I need to create or modify it.
Recently, I ...
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Processes in tmp folder
I have an application that has a process on the /tmp folder, and the process creates another file or folder. If the original process gets ended by the application, will all the files created by it get ...
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Fix Polyinstantiation of /tmp causing 'connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory'
In a multiseat desktop system with the /tmp directory polyinstantiated, the /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory and Xn instances are still created under root's /tmp not a user's.
ssh -Ying into or out of the ...
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How can I copy a /tmp/ directory that is created & deleted by a process?
I am investigating the behavior of a binary on Oracle Linux 9 (XFS filesystem). This binary, when called by a process, creates a directory under /tmp and copies some files to it. This directory gets a ...
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Can't mount zram device on /tmp (Booting problem)
I have a simple script that creates a zram device and formats it to ext4 and finally, it mounts zram on /tmp.
#!/bin/bash
# create zram with size 1.5G
# $zram_dev is created device path (eg. /dev/...
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Is /var/spool automatically removed/cleaned
My app is keeping files in /var/spool/myapp and that works fine. If my app crashes, then it might leave files in that directory.
Over time, this can add up to a lot of files, so I wondered if the /...
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MX-21 /tmp directory empty on reboot
I am using MX-21 and my /tmp directory is getting purged on every reboot. I would like to keep my /tmp for a week, so after some searching the web I modified the /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf file and ...
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what's root cause of "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
Stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories" after reboot a server(Debian 9.5, 64bit), and solve by this "boot-stuck-at-a-start-job-is-running-for-create-...
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When to clean up /var/tmp?
/var/tmp is not defined in POSIX, but is defined in FHS:
5.15. /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots
5.15.1. Purpose
The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that
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Why is Supervisord configured to exec/run in the tmp folder by default?
I've got a question regarding supervisord. After running echo_supervisord_conf, I noticed that the directory it runs in is configured as /tmp by default. Why is this the case? Is it because the /tmp ...
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Should TMPDIR have a trailing slash?
In Unix/POSIX/Linux systems it's possible to set the temporary directory via the TMPDIR variable. Wikipedia references a specification by the Open Group mentioning this.
What this doesn't answer for ...
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Permission denied in /tmp
/tmp folder has all permission:
drwxrwxrwt 28 root root 20480 Jan 24 03:14 /tmp
File /tmp/test.txt already exists, with permission 666, owned by user test1.
-rw-rw-rw- 1 test1 test1 0 Jan 24 02:34 /...
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How is /tmp linked to /var/tmp
I've already read up on the differences between /tmp and /var/tmp, so note that this is not what this question is about. When I create a file in /tmp, it shows up in /var/tmp; however, neither ...
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Where can users create temporary files safely?
Once /tmp ideally should be reserved for the system, where can a user create temporary files safely?
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How to tar-gzip a directory and put it in the /tmp
Hey im stuck on a assignment and i dont know how to solve it really because iam quite new with working in linux. I have to place a directory in a tar-ball and zip it using gzip.
At the moment this is ...
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Can I safely detete the contents of /var/tmp (flatpak items)?
Today I'm trying to save some valuable space on my system disk and I might have a real newbie question: Can I safely detete the contents of /var/tmp (flatpak items)?
$ sudo du -sh /var/tmp
1.5G /...
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How can I increase the size of /tmp directory without affecting RAM or anything else? (Redhat 8.2)
I'm new at Linux and I will get use of your help guys on this..
I want to increase the size of /tmp directory without affecting RAM or anything else on Red Hat 8.2 .. any suggestions to do that?
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On xfs, why can't I hardlink to /tmp/, giving the error "Invalid cross-device link" when my fstab indicates tmp is on the same partition?
My error:
ln "99700.fa821246f01ef7f3d86a503e33de5753b50640d69de790fd3db5a5dc31ffa45d1dc64a93f950379ee432aa27cbb0593e6e50ddbb6f8a7e279afaf90cec961233.png" /home/anon/foo.png
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Centos, How to delete files with full root (but not full file system), with out repartitioning
Nvidia has screwed me and kept every single old version of CUDA since cuda 10 including every minor version inside of root totaling up to nearly 30 gigabytes of my 50 gigabyte root partition, and upon ...
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Delete /tmp subvolume on btrfs partition scheme and make systemd-tmpfiles work with default tmpfs /tmp directory
I've made the mistake of mounting the /tmp directory as a btrfs subvolume. The problem is that systemd-tmpfiles won't clean it. How can I delete the /tmp subvolume and fix this? I'm new to filesystems,...
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Browser downloads fail - Insufficient space in /tmp
I have a virtual machine (CentOS) that was pre-configured (I didn't partition them) and I have some of my work on it.
When I got access to the VM, it had very less storage space, and it isn't ...
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curl not able to write to /tmp directory owned by user
I tried running the script as instructed in https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/:
$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/rootless | sh
But the script crashed in the following line:
curl -L -...
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mktemp creates file in pwd rather than in /tmp
Previously mktemp used to create files in /tmp. Today I noticed that mktemp is creating file in $PWD rather than in /tmp?
Did I change something inadvertently? Any suggestions to fix this?
Note:
I ...
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finding which files were removed from /tmp upon reboot
Hoping against hope here, but is there some in-built logging mechanism through which I can find out which files were deleted from /tmp upon reboot? I could obviously tweak the shutdown scripts, but ...
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How to disable/override automatic mounting of tmpfs to /tmp by systemd?
Background: On my system /tmp is a regular part of the / partition and I use it for a few important features of the system.
Current systemd Approach: On new systems systemd has started to take over ...
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Is it possible to create a temporary file that will autodelete after a specific time that it's not read by any other program?
I'd like to create a temporary file that will be read by multiple scripts after its creation, but I don't have an easy way of monitoring when the last script finishes reading this temporary file to ...
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Root cannot append to file in /tmp [duplicate]
As root run:
cd /tmp
seq 10 > foo
chmod 666 foo
seq 10 >> foo
chown daemon foo
seq 10 >> foo
This gives:
-bash: foo: Permission denied
It is clear that it is due to /tmp's special ...
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From where does the service ID come from when using PrivateTmp=true in services?
Configuring a systemd service with PrivateTmp=true leads to the fact that the service uses a private tmp directory. Instead of /tmp such a service will use a directory like that:
/tmp/systemd-private-...
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Is it possible to avoid trashing hard disk while using /tmp as a RAM device?
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I need to implement some features to my GDB helper scripts but I have to stick with an older version of GDB (5.3, in this case). Since older versions lack so many features, I need to workaround ...
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decluttering systemd-private clutter?
Is there any way to configure systemd so that it creates its private tmp directories (for unit files with PrivateTmp=true) in subdirectories under /tmp and /var/tmp instead of the top-level of those ...
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Why is using /tmp/ more popular and recommended than using /dev/shm?
From my own experience, i noticed that most people use /tmp/ for temp files or to save on disk write, but i don't often see anyone recommending or even using /dev/shm instead.
Why is that?
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Is it possible to boot in a way that doesn't delete /tmp?
Say I'm running some lengthy process, consisting of two steps: a generates a big intermediate file, say /tmp/aoutput, then b reads that file and does something further with it.
Now the system crashed ...
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Do Unix/Linux systems generally have a "dump" directory?
A "middle" dump directory (path Y) to which one can to cut/copy-paste a few files from path X and then later cut/copy-paste these into path Z could be handy if someone is say upgrading a ...
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/tmp full but... empty
In a Python program, I use np.memmaps, which make use of the /tmp directory to handle massive arrays.
I make sure to clear /tmpregularly by running rm -rf /tmp/* every time I use this code. However ...
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Create a persistent temp directory with temporary content
I wish to create a directory in $TMP_DIR or /tmp/ which persists forever (i.e. is never deleted) but it is maintained by OS, i.e. the content of which can be deleted if they have not been opened/used ...
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Slow boot process while ubuntu starts because of systemd temporary file creation
I run ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell laptop; I just love the fact that you can set the workspace to a grid format in 16.04, unlike say 18.04 where it looks like a line, but not sure if 20 does have the grid ...
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sudo crontab won't work without /tmp dir: "(CRON) error (create tmpfile)"
My system regularly moves /tmp to /snapshot. (background)
Now I want to create a cronjob that checks every minute if the directory was renamed by the system, and renames it back.
$ sudo crontab -l
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/tmp messed up, even ls /tmp fails
We are seeing a small cluster become unusable. Initially the same behavior was on a compute node, it is now occuring on the head node. I do not know if this is the underlying source, but for certain ...
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Should programs remove temporary files in /tmp?
I have a program which uses temporary files, created using the mkstemps function. The files are created inside the /tmp directory.
Does these files get removed automatically on program exit?
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location for multi-user script temp file
On our unix webhost, I created a set of scripts for automating the website deploy process. Since I was the only user, I had the scripts keeping track of what phase of the deploy it was in by changing ...
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Something is creating thousands of .svg files in /tmp and not deleting them
Apparently for months now, some process has been creating an empty .svg file in /tmp every minute and leaving it there. I now have 43,000 of these 262 byte files accumulated. I could just periodically ...
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Enabling tmpfs on an already installed system
Right now a system uses LVM on LUKS, with only 2 lvm partitions / and /home.
If I now want to make use of tmpfs for /tmp and /var/tmp, can I just
add the necessary changes to /etc/fstab and it will ...
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buildah: use different directory than /tmp for temporary files
My /tmp directory is too small which results in an error when I try to commit an image via buildah:
$ buildah commit $container foo:bar
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error storing layer "42" to file: write /tmp/...
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Moving /tmp from ramdisk to other partition
Due to a deficit of RAM on Debian, I need to move /tmp to SSD drive. But I still can't figure it out, how to do that so the programs that use it will still access it under /tmp path.
So basically, ...
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How can i create a /tmp partition
i'm trying to intall RHEL Linux Server 7.4 using VMware through a dvd.iso
i want to create a partition for the /tmp during the installation, knowing that the graphical interface that permit ...
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