tmp folder cleanup

Xi0N · 2010-10-21 15:28:44

Hi all!
Suddenly, today, i was unable to open programs and the system looked really slow.... then, i realized that the root partition (containing /tmp) was full.

When i entered /tmp, i found thousands of folders with names starting by "bug-buddy-xxxxx"
I am trying to delete everything in /tmp to free the space up.
I need several things:

1) Is it safe to regularly wipe the /tmp folder?
2) Can i do it automatically?
3) How can i wipe everything under /tmp? if i try rm -R /tmp/* i get an error complaining about "too many arguments".....

Thanks!

Last edited by Xi0N (2010-10-21 15:29:54)

ChoK · 2010-10-21 16:42:00

It's safe to clean it regularly (well when the programs aren't using it of course). Mine is mounted over tmpfs so at every shutdown it's emptied.

at every boot it's emptied by /etc/rc.sysinit with the following command
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null

You can put that in a cron job and maybe check with lsof or fuser if the file is on use.

Xi0N · 2010-10-21 19:35:34

Thanks! I think i will just erase it manually from time to time....... meanwhile, i will have a look on that way you said: Mounting as tmpfs.....

stqn · 2010-10-21 20:17:14

You can try:

for i in /tmp/* ; do rm -r "$i" ; done

Last edited by stqn (2010-10-21 20:18:23)

Xi0N · 2010-10-21 20:24:19

stqn wrote:

You can try:

for i in /tmp/* ; do rm -r "$i" ; done

That's whaat i did.... thanks!!

ChoK · 2010-10-21 23:27:18

Some infos about tmpfs here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ramdisk
I have this line in /etc/fstab
none /tmp tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0

also when I said

at every boot it's emptied by /etc/rc.sysinit with the following command
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null

I meant, it's the default on every arch install, so everytime you reboot /tmp is cleaned. My wording was a bit confusing

Last edited by ChoK (2010-10-21 23:29:25)

arjunv · 2018-04-12 06:56:17

ChoK wrote:

Some infos about tmpfs here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ramdisk
I have this line in /etc/fstab
none /tmp tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
also when I said
at every boot it's emptied by /etc/rc.sysinit with the following command
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* &>/dev/null
I meant, it's the default on every arch install, so everytime you reboot /tmp is cleaned. My wording was a bit confusing

Is this really required?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ramdisk

Under systemd, /tmp is automatically mounted as a tmpfs even though no entry is specified in /etc/fstab.

seth · 2018-04-12 07:27:04

Dude, you're replying to a thread from *2010* ...

V1del · 2018-04-12 08:34:25

Indeed. Please pay attention to the dates.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

Last edited by V1del (2018-04-12 08:35:16)

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tmp folder cleanup

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