I'd like to mount /tmp
without fstab entry using tmp.mount
However on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it doesn't seem to work.
user@user-x1:~$ systemctl status tmp.mount
Unit tmp.mount could not be found.
user@user-x1:~$ sudo systemctl enable tmp.mount
Failed to enable unit: Unit file tmp.mount does not exist.
user@user-x1:~$ sudo systemctl cat tmp.mount
No files found for tmp.mount.
user@user-x1:~$ cat /usr/share/systemd/tmp.mount
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
#
# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
[Unit]
Description=Temporary Directory (/tmp)
Documentation=https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES
Documentation=man:file-hierarchy(7)
Documentation=https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
ConditionPathIsSymbolicLink=!/tmp
DefaultDependencies=no
Conflicts=umount.target
Before=local-fs.target umount.target
After=swap.target
[Mount]
What=tmpfs
Where=/tmp
Type=tmpfs
Options=mode=1777,strictatime,nosuid,nodev
[Install]
WantedBy=local-fs.target
user@user-x1:~$
What's happening? Why does systemd say unit could not be found even though bash auto tabbing fills up tmp.mount
and what's the simplest way to enable this tmpfs
without any config?
tmp.mount is not enabled by default. Just copy and enable it
Note that
systemctl enable
accept absolute paths to unit files. (See systemctl man page) So there's no need to copy it manually.I have tested on Ubuntu 22.04: