> There’s zero reason to periodically go in there and wipe stuff out. I swear I remember back when I first switched to linux (Ubuntu) back in the late 2000s, t

> There’s zero reason to periodically go in there and wipe stuff out. I swear I remember back when I first switched to linux (Ubuntu) back in the late 2000s, this was how it worked: Instead of a tmpfs or automated wiping on boot, a system crontab entry that would use "find" to delete files last accessed more than some time ago (a day? a week?). Except for the risk of filling the disk if files are created too quickly, this would seem to be the best of all worlds to me - stuff can't stick around forever unless it's constantly being used. A download you access once would stick around for a day, while a heavy project that's using /tmp/ would stick around for the week or month you're using it, even across reboots, then get deleted later.