Linux boxes are great at accumulating junk quietly. Not catastrophic junk. Just enough to become annoying over time: stale files in /tmp forgotten payloads in /var/tmp application scratch directories that grow forever caches that should be disposable, but never get expired automatically A lot of people reach for ad-hoc find ... -delete cron jobs when this happens. I think that is usually the w
Stop Cache Creep on Linux: Practical `systemd-tmpfiles` Cleanup Policies for `/tmp`, `/var/tmp`, and App Caches
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