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Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?



My system has 8 Gb of physical memory.

On a 256 Gb SSD, I have:

nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0  23.3G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   9.3G  0 part /var
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   977M  0 part [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0   1.9G  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p6 259:6    0 202.6G  0 part /home

In Debian 13, nvme0n1p5 is no longer auto-mounted 
as /tmp.

Can I just:
1) shut down the system
2) boot from a Debian-Live usb drive
3) delete the nvme0n1p5 partition
4) "grow" nvme0n1p4 (the swap partition) 
   using the space freed up by deleting
   nvme0n1p5
5) re-boot into the system

After that, there would be no /tmp partition, 
and any /tmpfs stuff should be in memory only, 
except using the swap partition when necessary.

BTW, here is my current /etc/fstab:
 
# <file system>                            <mount point> <type>
<options>          <dump> <pass>

UUID=4fdd4399-6267-404a-a292-cdc7761df3c9  /	        
ext4	errors=remount-ro  0	  1
UUID=26EE-0EF5	                           /boot/efi    
vfat	umask=0077	   0	  1
UUID=00f0c2db-0490-4354-b949-f9af11a7f001  /home	
ext4	defaults	   0	  2
UUID=8bfeee23-9c09-45b7-a73e-bd2ff43e207c  /var	        
ext4	defaults	   0	  2
UUID=e2a56ec3-99d4-4b40-9aa4-24975143cdc7  none	         swap	        
sw	           0	  0



???


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