With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory.
Thus those trying to do system maintenance without reading the man page could find their /home data deleted.
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with: So an option that is literally documented as saying “all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted”, that you knew nothing about, sounded like a “good idea”?
Maybe don’t just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you?
Just a thought eh Ultimately though after much discussion the past few days, systemd-tmpfiles behavior is now improved upon.
Merged yesterday was this patch that now makes systemd-tmpfiles accept a configuration file when running purge.
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