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How to clean /tmp?

rizhas@rizhas-laptop:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 67G 58G 5,2G 92% / none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1,5G 12K 1,5G 1% /dev tmpfs 303M 1,2M 302M …
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Accidentally deleted tmp folder

i was trying to run sudo rm -r ./tmp but instead typed sudo rm -r /tmp Will it be fixed by running? sudo mkdir /tmp if i do what permissions should i give it? ps: i didnt log out of my system yet
Adonis K. Kakoulidis
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Is it possible to delete files in the /tmp directory once a certain directory size is exceeded?

According to How is the /tmp directory cleaned up?, the /tmp directory is cleaned up using tmpreaper, which uses cron to schedule cleanups at fixed time intervals. However, I would instead like to enforce a certain maximum size of the tmp directory.…
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Error reading disk drive /tmp at boot

First I want to say thank you in advance because I have been reading all the forum entries about similar problems and I have had no luck in solving this one. I have a Dell Inspiron with a phony Windows 7 OS; it's currently open to viruses and I'm…
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Just erased /var/tmp dir, what to do?

While cleaning up the system for about 7 hrs, I "cleaned up" the \var\tmp folder , which has no backup. Despite the answer looks as very simple and straightforward - just reboot and forget, I'm affraid to do so since it is live server and if…
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Why are temporary files not cleaned by default?

I have noted that at least since 18.04 up to 19.10 the settings for automatically cleaning temporary files is not enabled by default. Why is this? I reckon that one reason might be to limit wear on SSDs, but if a temporary file is not touched for 30…
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How does one create a ~/tmp that cleans up automatically on boot and/or on Cron?

This is to keep temporary files I create and forget to delete from polluting my file system. Presumably the target directory could be named anything.
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Change from windows 7 to ubuntu 14. And doesnt work

I changed from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04 and after installation it loaded Windows. From windows i selected Ubuntu as my default OS. Since, it only shows a message that says serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /. Selected I…
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tmp is not ready error

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 from external hard-drive. Sometimes, when I run ubuntu "the disk drive for /tmp is not ready" error message appears and OS cannot be started. In this case, I restart several times to open ubuntu. Is there way to eliminate this…
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Corrupt /tmp directory

My /tmp directory got corrupted. Things got scary for a while and I was unable to boot :-(. I have now got myself back to a working system by renaming the corrupt /tmp to /tmp.old, and creating a new /tmp: drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Nov 29…
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tmp dir 100% full only 56k out of 1MB being used

I know there are lots of posts on in the stack exchange web with problems similar to mine but I have not found one that quite helps yet. As you can see from the output below df shows my /tmp directory to be completely full. This has happened to me…
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Alleged space problems involving creating files in /tmp

When trying to open an epub file with Atril Document Viewer it shows the error: Failed to create directory '/tmp/atril-13933': No Space Left on Device. Similarly, when trying to download a small file (1,4 MB) in Firefox the standard downloader,…
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Can I delete cnijpwgtmp files in /var/tmp?

My /var/tmp folder is 27 GiB. Upon inspection, I've found hundreds of files starting with cnijpwgtmp (fi: cnijpwgtmpk6YaSu). What are these files and can I delete them safely to restore space?
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change tmp folder for sudo / root command

change tmp folder for sudo / root command in .bashrc file added export TMP=/new/tmp export TEMP=/new/tmp export TMPDIR=/new/tmp Also created a symlink for /tmp to new location apps that i am running without sudo they create temp files in the new…
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/tmp is not ready or not present

today i found out that Mint with LXDE had fall. it said that "/tmp is not ready or not present". how to improve it? additional question: how to transfer /home on separate tome?
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