BASH - Directories - Place /tmp on a tmpfs partition

WARNING: Only follow these instructions if your system had at least 4GB memory!

Because then this tweak won't make them faster, but (much) slower.

Speed up your system a bit by placing /tmp on a tmpfs partition.

Any temporary files will not be placed on the hard disk anymore, but on a virtual RAM disk instead.

sudo cp -v /usr/share/systemd/tmp.mount /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl enable tmp.mount

Reboot your computer.

After the reboot, check whether it works:

systemctl status tmp.mount

By default, a tmpfs partition has its maximum size set to half your total RAM.

The actual memory consumption depends on how much you fill it up, as a tmpfs partition doesn't consume any memory until it is actually needed.

To undo tmpfs

sudo rm -v /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount

Reboot.