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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVEX] Should I be worried about all these broken symlinks?

Again, symlinks under tmpfs filesystems are continuously created and removed.  There is nothing unusual about this.  The systemd units directory in particular seems to be all broken symlinks - I don't know exactly how systemd uses these, it seems to be an intentional repurposing of symlinking to store hash values in tmpfs.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-11-18 03:37:15)

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merlock

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Registered: 2018-10-30

Posts: 235

Re: [SOLVEX] Should I be worried about all these broken symlinks?

An update, I removed the ~ symlinks and while I was removing that I noticed I had these new broken symlinks. Why did these one's show up?

Are you following (reading) all the replies?

irrelevant for anything under /proc and /run: there couldn't be anything there older than your last boot as those are not on-disk file systems.

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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLVEX] Should I be worried about all these broken symlinks?

I see. I think I understand now. I'll just cleanup the var links now. Closing  Thanks to everyone who helped.

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