topic Re: cleaning /tmp in Operating System - Linux

cleaning /tmp

Entisar — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:47:40 GMT

how to clean /tmp

Re: cleaning /tmp

wobbe — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:02:43 GMT

man rm

Re: cleaning /tmp

P Muralidhar Kini — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:00:46 GMT

Hi Entisar,

You have to use the RM/RMDIR command to delete the files/directory.

Check the following link for more details -
http://lowfatlinux.com/linux-delete-files-rm.html

Regards,
Murali

Re: cleaning /tmp

Ralph Grothe — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:58:37 GMT

You could also handle /tmp the Solaris way,
i.e. mounting that filesystem as tmpfs from RAM.
This lifts the burden to clean up from the admin because all contents get lost on reboots (e.g. during maintenance).
It also frees you the blocks your /tmp occupied on hdd.
See "man mount" and look for tmpfs mount options.
I often use these in my fstab:

$ grep /tmp /etc/fstab
none /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=01777,size=512m,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

Re: cleaning /tmp

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:29:41 GMT

Normally the tmpwatch script will keep your tmp directory clean.

/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

See man tmpwatch.