On Oct 18, 2018 11:53 AM, schwack <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
Are they some sort of core file?
