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		ciupicri on May 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and syste... You're right, but this was introduced around 2012 [1] when that old laptop was manufactured. Also no one is forcing you to store GBs of data on it and indeed in practice most programs use only a couple of MBs. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs

NekkoDroid on May 16, 2024 [–]

And if programs use GBs of data, it should usually be in /var/tmp/ as that is backed usually by an actual storage device.

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