On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:13:24 +0930 "Tim via users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: ... > home user: > > Different! > > Thank-you for the idea. > > Your welcome. I also used it as an opportunity to cull out various > things that didn't need keeping. And properly file things in a > coherent way that just got dumped somewhere on the drive. > > Back in my Amiga days, I used to download files from the internet into > the trash folder. If I actually needed to keep them, I'd move them. > But temporary downloads were already sitting in a place set aside for > disposal. On that OS, the trash folder was as usable as any other > folder, there just happened to be a convenient function to empty it on > demand.
Not so long ago /tmp was normal directory and can be used for the same purpose. Not anymore. Some directories where tmpfs (5) is commonly used are /tmp, /var/lock and /var/run. Do not use it on /var/tmp, because that directory is meant for temporary files that are preserved across reboots. In my opinion, good move. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
