(28-09-2020, 12:15 PM)vain Wrote: z3bra Wrote:
I like to keep tmpfs partitions around, so I'm sure that I don't pile things up in /tmp or ~/tmp. If I must keep something, then I must move it somewhere. It helps keeping things clean.


Yes, this is great. I do a tremendous amount of stuff in /tmp, which is a tmpfs. Reboot, everything clean.

Yeah I love using /tmp in this way. Good for cloning git repos that I want a quick read of but without keeping a copy around, for example.

My setup is much more simple than many posted already:


One small boot partition, and the rest of the disk is root, inside a luks partition. After bouncing around many, many backup solutions for my home folder over the years, I have concluded that a simple rsync of /home to another machine is the most stable and managable approach (with some blacklisting inside a file using rsync's filtering). ~/Downloads is blacklisted, so it's my half way between a normal folder and /tmp. Maybe one day when I've cleared it properly I'll stick another tmpfs at ~/Downloads to ensure I organise downloads as they come in.