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Downloads is not a temporary files directory, that's what /tmp is for, I for one am using $HOME/Tmp instead of /tmp because /tmp is for whoever doesn't respect
by nmz 4y ago
Downloads is not a temporary files directory, that's what /tmp is for, I for one am using $HOME/Tmp instead of /tmp because /tmp is for whoever doesn't respect $TMPDIR big problem if you don't have much ram and you want to avoid writing to an sdcard. (assuming /tmp is tmpfs)
- naniwaduni 4y agoOkay, it's persistent storage for potentially arbitrarily large files that probably came from a browser, that you haven't gone out of your way to find another location for. You can go pretty far outside the viable scope of /tmp, but still have the files' presence there be logically temporary.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> (assuming /tmp is tmpfs) Not a safe assumption, annoyingly. Debian doesn't use tmpfs for /tmp; I guess they expect you to use /dev/shm if you want a tmpfs.
- nmz 4y agoWhich is non-portable. (Well, it exists in freebsd, but not openbsd, no clue if it exists in netbsd/minix)