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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
This seems like a filename conflict waiting to happen. Why not just mount a tmpfs there?
Like I said it’s a cheap solution for a single user system. Ofc tmpfs would be better but has to be done for every user again
You: It’s a single user system
Also you: Tmpfs would have to be done for every user
And a /tmp/ symlink would have to be created for every user too, so I don’t get your point
Tmpfs is just as easy as making a symlink, but without the filename conflicts between files in ~/.config/ and /tmp/. You just need to add a line to /etc/fstab
/usr/local/sbin/adduser.local
One line in there and you can make it add a new line with appropriate /home/userX/.cache tmpfs line to fstab.
Or, maybe a cleaner way, you might make a init/systemd service that, when booting, would run something like
for each dir in /home do
mount dir/.tmp -type tmpfs
done
I’m not at the computer now and I’m lazy to Google it, so this above is just a pseudo code and probably won’t run.