[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#666871: "real" /tmp contains cruft that is never deleted after tmpfs mounted over it

[Joey Hess]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: normal

I just umounted my tmpfs /tmp, after running into a mairix bug.
(It ignores TEMPDIR and tried to write > 200 mb to /tmp, which
fails on this 1 gb memory system.)

Anyway, I noticed the root filesystem's /tmp still contained temp
files, from February. This must be what was in /tmp the last
time I rebooted, before the tmpfs /tmp started to be mounted.

This could be an aritrary amount of wasted space on people's systems.
(Here it was a couple MB.) Seems like the "real" /tmp should be cleaned
before mounting the tmpfs over it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.1
ii  debianutils     4.3
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian0
ii  mount           2.20.1-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22.1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22.1
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.2-1
ii  psmisc     22.16-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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