@vaibhav wrote:
I just discovered a hidden “asterisk” folder under /home
It has around 500MB data[root@ast4 /]# cd /home/ [root@ast4 home]# ll total 4 drwxr-xr-x 12 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 4 09:54 asterisk [root@ast4 home]# cd asterisk/ [root@ast4 asterisk]# ll total 0 [root@ast4 asterisk]# cd / [root@ast4 /]# du -h ./home/ --max-depth=1 463M ./home/asterisk 463M ./home/ [root@ast4 /]# cd /home/asterisk/ [root@ast4 asterisk]# ll total 0 [root@ast4 asterisk]# ls -al total 64 drwxr-xr-x 12 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 4 09:54 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 28 18:44 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 18 Dec 6 2016 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 193 Dec 6 2016 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 231 Dec 6 2016 .bashrc drwxr-xr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 28 18:45 .clang-tools drwxr-xr-x 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 28 18:45 .config drwxrwxr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Dec 27 20:35 .gnupg drwxr-xr-x 5 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 28 18:45 .node drwxr-xr-x 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 29 11:18 .node-gyp drwxr-xr-x 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 28 18:46 .npm -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 18 Dec 27 19:02 .npmrc -rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 0 Jul 29 11:08 .odbc.ini drwxr-xr-x 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 28 18:46 .package_cache drwxr-xr-x 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jul 31 23:41 .pki drwxrwxr-x 5 asterisk asterisk 4096 Nov 1 06:38 .pm2 drwx------ 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Aug 4 09:55 .ssh [root@ast4 asterisk]#Would love to understand what is this folder all about, why is it hidden.
Thanks!
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