On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 17:23:18 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:29:32PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > I noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It > > seems to be created at the time of installation. What is it? > > It's one of the XDG standard directories. > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
The only mention of .cache I see in that page is $HOME/.cache but this is not in a home directory. Not even root's. Unless at some point root's $HOME was set to / instead of /root. That said, I don't see any cause for alarm here. It's not taking up much space (being an empty directory), and you can easily remove it if it bothers you. For the record, I don't have a /.cache directory on my system, which was installed as Bookworm but upgraded to Trixie.
