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I wonder if this has to do with that systemd "movable" home thing I read about a while ago ? Yes, bugs happen, but how could testing miss this. I would think

by jmclnx 2y ago

I wonder if this has to do with that systemd "movable" home thing I read about a while ago ? Yes, bugs happen, but how could testing miss this. I would think some automated test would have noticed this. After reading the links theamk supplied, somehow a config issue occurred (?) and the change is just to the man page. A bit confused by the fix. But seems a purge of /home is still possible even after the fix, to me that is very odd. Fun times in the cloud I guess :) Glad my distro (Slackware) does extensive testing before a each release. But maybe that is easier for that distro since it does not use systemd. And not being a professional admin, I will not have to worry about this at work.

eternityforest 2y ago
My first thought was that this functionality is so obscure that maybe it didn't have many eyeballs on it. I didn't even know the command existed till now, removing temp files from the terminal is not a thing I've ever thought of doing. Or the automated tests could have been atomic and isolated, maybe the check was just "Temp files are gone, all good, stop the VM and move on in a fresh environment". I'm more afraid of rm and dd typos than future systemd bug/features in less common commands, just because I actually use those very occasionally when Etcher and the GUI won't do.