tmpfs is unexpectedly mounted on /tmp directory in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with the journald message: "tmp.mount: Directory /tmp to mount over is not empty, mounting anyway"
Issue
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tmpfs is unexpectedly mounted on /tmp directory.
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We could see the following journald message:
tmp.mount: Directory /tmp to mount over is not empty, mounting anyway
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- systemd
- /tmp is part of root filesystem and is not a separate mount point
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