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A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

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150 points shaunpud | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 02:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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Incipient ◴[29 Aug 25 05:23 UTC] No.45060518[source]▶
Using the example from the article, extracting an archive. Surely that use case is entity not possible using in-memory? What happens if you're dealing with a not-unreasonable 100gb archive?

Who runs around with 100gb+ of swap?!

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nolist_policy ◴[29 Aug 25 06:57 UTC] No.45061038[source]▶
Use `/var/tmp` of you want a disk backed tmp. Not sure why the article omits that.
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Suzuran ◴[29 Aug 25 12:39 UTC] No.45063303[source]▶
/var/tmp is not allowed if you wish to pass security audits, it MUST be a bind mount to /tmp
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1. NekkoDroid ◴[29 Aug 25 15:02 UTC] No.45065063[source]▶
What is the rational behind requiring it being a bind mount (or also whatever other options are allowed)?