On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i am wondering what creates and touches on a Debian 11 system a lot of > empty directories in the /-Directory. The names indicate that they have > something to do with LUKS: > > /1678114330.LUKS1_test_cryptsetup_defaults > /1678114331.LUKS1_test_with_twofish_cipher > ... > /1678114341.LUKS2_test_cryptsetup_defaults > /1678114342.LUKS2_test_with_twofish_cipher > ... > /1680340570.LUKS2_test_with_argon2_pbkdf > > /1680340571.LUKS2_test_with_second_key_slot_and_first_slot_using_different_password > > In total there are 115 of these directories. Currently all are empty. > One of them bears the timestamp of today's boot: > /1678114330.LUKS1_test_cryptsetup_defaults > (Its prefix number as timestamp says "Mon Mar 6 15:52:10 CET 2023") > A few bear the timestamp "Apr 1 2023" and most bear "Mar 6 2023". > > One of the partitions on the system is indeed encrypted. But the > root filesystem is not. df says about both: > > /dev/nvme0n1p2 479152840 92955444 361788004 21% / > ... > /dev/mapper/daten 3778568692 1538634024 2047923672 43% /daten > > So my questions are: > - Where can i learn about those directories ? > - Why are they located in / and not in some sub-directory ? > >
I never have seen this behavior. But I think it's best to post this question in the cryptsetup ML. The ML can be found here: https://subspace.kernel.org/lists.linux.dev.html -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
