i have only one internal ssd and no external drives are connected
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You are correct this is the one mounted on
/tmp.Everything under
/runand/devis normal to be on tmpfs and should not be changed.In Linux, a lot of internal systems and devices are considered as files even if they are not really a file in the usual sense of it. For example what is in
/devis usually not really taking up RAM space but more of a representation of the devices (internal and external) that are attached to your system. You can programatically read and write to these "files" to communicate with the devices.In Linux, everything is a file