Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...)
On Fri 17 Jul 2020 at 13:22:12 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
> rhkramer@gmail.com (12020-07-17):
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> > Among other things, should I be worried that it won't disappear on power loss
> > / reboot?
>
> Depends on what kind of disappear you want. If all you want is not to
> have to worry about cleaning up, then you are good with tmpfs.
>
> If you are worried that sensitive data may end up on disk, then encrypt
> your swap with an ephemeral key.
In the absence of encryption, bear in mind that cleaning up only takes
place while the system boots up. Until then, everything remains on the
disk and can be examined merely by booting from, say, a USB stick instead.
Cheers,
David.
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