Was prepping for 6.4 upgrade and noticed a bunch of *_writes_to_HOME directories in my root file systyem. (as shown below)
All created on Sept 16th. Not sure what I might have been doing on the system that day. Any thoughts on what these directories are, how they got there, and if safe to delete? schwack@skippy:/$ls -al total 110652 drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 1024 Oct 18 12:47 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 1024 Oct 18 12:47 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 578 Apr 1 2017 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 468 Apr 1 2017 .profile drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 altroot drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 at-spi2-core-2.22.1_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 atk-2.22.0_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Mar 24 2018 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 82784 Apr 2 2018 boot -rwx------ 1 root wheel 12169910 Oct 18 12:44 bsd -rwx------ 1 root wheel 12163202 Sep 3 07:54 bsd.booted -rwx------ 1 root wheel 10984685 Sep 4 2017 bsd.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8777021 Oct 11 16:02 bsd.rd drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 colord-1.3.3_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 19456 Oct 18 12:44 dev drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 2048 May 27 21:14 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 gdk-pixbuf-2.36.6_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 gobject-introspection-1.50.0_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.22.0_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 gtk+-2.24.31_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 gtk+-3.22.11_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 harfbuzz-1.4.5_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 json-glib-1.2.8_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 librsvg-2.40.16_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 libsoup-2.56.0_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 mnt -rwx------ 1 root wheel 12271743 Mar 20 2018 obsd drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 pango-1.40.4_writes_to_HOME drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Sep 16 2017 polkit-0.113_writes_to_HOME drwx------ 3 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Jun 16 13:17 sbin lrwxrwx--- 1 root wheel 11 Mar 24 2018 sys -> usr/src/sys drwxrwxrwt 6 root wheel 512 Oct 18 12:44 tmp drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 usr drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 512 Mar 24 2018 var
