fobq wrote:I found some suspicious files:
/root/.config/.openoffice/4/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/sve81rb0.tmp_/dict-en.oxt/th_en_US_v2.dat (18mb)
What is this cache?
I just unloaded my browser's cache (now it is 1,4MB). What is it:
/root/.cache/mozilla/firefox/z4poujvs.default/Cache/_CACHE_003_ (16mb)
I have two big directories in pup_rw: /usr/lib (256MB) and /root (100MB)
the first one is clear, I checked the files in its subdirectories as weel, the last modification happened in December.
The most suspicious one is /root. If it is, it means, on Sunday, it just was 20MB. Is this size imaginable for root?
Hello, fobq.
Susupicous ? hehe. Absolutely not ! They are all part of your system.
In particular the files in /initrd/pup_rw/: this directory is actually the original
read-and-write (rw) component of your Puppy. If you go in /initrd/, you'll also see
"pup_ro" (read-only) folders : the "ro" folders are the folders in the Puppy sfs file
and are read-only, they make your basic Puppy.
Technically, in Puppy, all "pup_ro" folders are in the unchangeable Puppy squash
(sfs). file and all "pup_rw" are in your editable "pupsave".?fs file.
The folders in "rw" are actually your active, "living", Puppy system. Puppy is made
so we don't actually work in/initrd/pup_rw/usr or /initrd/pup_rw/root, it would be too
cumbersome, so it has sort of an "identical twin" that appears to us users simply as
/root, /usr, etc.
20 Mb for an active /root ? No problem, I've got the same on my Puppy.
/root/.config/.openoffice/4/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/sve81rb0.tmp_/dict-en.oxt/th_en_US_v2.dat (18mb)
is the American English Thesaurus used by your OpenOffice 4.
American English is a complex and articulate language, you know (where is the
tongue-in-cheek icon! ), it takes a lot of room on a disk, especially for synonyms
and such !
/root/.cache/mozilla/firefox/z4poujvs.default/Cache/_CACHE_003_ (16mb). This is
one of Mozilla Firefox's caches. This one is for minor elements that do not go in
the usual /root/.mozilla/< your personal alphanum code> folder, for some reason.
I'm not a mozilla programmer, but all mozilla-family programs (seamonkey,
iceape, firefox, compozer, etc.) are made that way, with user folders in two places.
So I'd say your Puppy is quite healthy, nothing suspicious at all in it. I hope the
above helped in answering your questions.
BFN.