On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:28:38 +0100, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > After a reboot, I found that my /tmp is taking up 8Gb of space. > I don't want to use a tmpfs for it, as I occasionally use audio/video > tools that write to /tmp, with sizes above my system memory. > > Looking at FHS's recommendations, I would say there are 2 moments to clean > /tmp. > - At boot time (almost) everything can be deleted. > - For systems that don't reboot often (servers, laptops that just > suspend instead of shut down), a daily cron job can delete items older > than (2 weeks / a month). > > Does nixos have anything in place to manage /tmp? > What do others do?
I would welcome a config option for that: services.cleanTmp.enable = true; services.cleanTmp.paths = [ '/tmp' '/var/tmp' ] (default) services.cleanTmp.onBoot = true; services.cleanTmp.interval = XYZ; Do we have something to specify XYZ? -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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