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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Building Linux in /dev/shm
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:44:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 02:53:05 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in
> <uvrbur$2ae33$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> Isn't /tmp usually mounted as a ramdisk?
> 
> Some distros might do that.  Linux Mint doesn't, and I don't advise it.

It’s your choice. Stuff in /tmp is not expected to have a long lifetime.
/var/tmp is for things you would like to last longer, but still aren’t 
that fussed about.

The whole point about temporary files is it’s not the end of the world if 
they get deleted.