https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/best-practice-to-delete-dbfs-tmp/m-p/33173#M24249 <P>/dbfs/tmp can contain a lot of files including temporary system files used for intermediary calculations or other sub directories which can contain packages of user defined installations. It is always better to backup the files. </P> Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:04:10 GMT Debayan 2022-08-30T21:04:10Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/best-practice-to-delete-dbfs-tmp/m-p/33172#M24248 <P>What is best practice regarding the tmp folder? We have a very large amount of data in that folder and not sure whether to delete, back up etc? </P> Tue, 30 Aug 2022 08:09:27 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/best-practice-to-delete-dbfs-tmp/m-p/33172#M24248 j02424 2022-08-30T08:09:27Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/best-practice-to-delete-dbfs-tmp/m-p/33173#M24249 <P>/dbfs/tmp can contain a lot of files including temporary system files used for intermediary calculations or other sub directories which can contain packages of user defined installations. It is always better to backup the files. </P> Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:04:10 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/best-practice-to-delete-dbfs-tmp/m-p/33173#M24249 Debayan 2022-08-30T21:04:10Z