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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

  • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    This seems like a filename conflict waiting to happen. Why not just mount a tmpfs there?

    • neonred@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      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

      • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        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