Random trash files appearing in /home directory, why and how to delete effectively?

[andreas85]

If this is btrfs, then i had this same problem (maybe a year ago)
I have to look in the forum to find my solution

Please have a look at:

More than 18! files Xorg.0.log with same timestamp

Such a thing i have never seen until today. Duplicate files with same name, timestamp and content : This is Listing of /var/log after some error with xorg where xorg could not start [Stable Update] 2021-11-19 - Kernels, Gnome 41.1, Plasma 5.23.3, Frameworks 5.88, LxQt 1.0, Xorg-Server 21.1, Mesa - #138 by andreas85 ls -lA insgesamt 19292 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130 30. Sep 08:11 2021 drwx------ 1 root root 0 27. Sep 2018 audit -rw-rw----…

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1st step of solution:

from live usb

• DO not use GUI to solve this mess ! (do everything in a terminal-window)

• mount the filesystem to /mnt

• you may use mc if you want

• create a new folder /mnt/home/user2 (with same user and permission as “user”

• move (!) all directories and files (without the bad ones)

• move /mnt/home/user to /mnt/home/user_bad

• move /mnt/home/user2 to /mnt/home/user

• umount

• forget about /mnt/home/user_bad

More than 18! files Xorg.0.log with same timestamp

Did update my USB-Stick without problem. Mounted my fs, and as root: moved /var/log to /var/log_old mkdir /var/log moved all dirs and normal files from /var/log_old back to /var/log The “abnormal files” stay where they are now at /var/log_old/ and /var/log_old/lightdm/ . I think this is the option with the least risk involved.

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Maybe 6 months later I managed to delete those files. (Because the thread had been closed, i could not add my last solution) So I can’t remember exactly how i deleted them Since they are size 0, they shouldn’t hurt.

You can find good Information about Btrfs in the wiki

Btrfs

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Please also check your kernel-version, and go to the newest LTS if possible