Comment by arcanemachiner
6 hours ago
I don't think that's always true.
Although I just looked into it, and even Ubuntu 26.04 appear to default to tmpfs for /tmp storage, so I guess it's fairly universal now.
Not sure if I agree with that idea in principle... What's wrong with just wiping it intermittently??
It’s RAM unless you have swap enabled.
Did not know this. Was looking at htop yesterday scratching my head as to why there was over a GB in swap with ram <0.25 capacity. Had been teeing logs there pretty heavily