On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 17:10 +0000, Colin Booth wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:23:55PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > There may be a bit of a misconception or miscommunication here.
> > On Linux systems, /run is practically certaion to be mounted on
> > a tmpfs of some kind: its explicit purpose is to be volatile,
> > for this boot only. It is similar to /var/run, but one of its main
> > advantages is that it will always be cleaned upon boot.
> > See e.g. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html
> On most modern systems /var/run is a symlink to /run (or ../run, which
> is the same in practice) so they aren't similar but in fact identical.
> Other than that everything you said is 100% spot on, using anything
> run-related will result in data loss on reboot.
I'm more interested in knowing what void linux is doing not mounting
/run as a tmpfs
Also I think some BSDs still mount /var/run as a normal directory (they
don't have the /run symlink too).
Received on Wed Sep 17 2025 - 19:33:12 CEST