Allegedly, on or about 21 March 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Anyway, I've since determined that the directory name > 7725dfc225d14958a625ddaaaea5962b is derived from the contents of > /etc/machine-id For what it's worth, I have a collection of those empty directories on my older installation (FC26), and two sets because I changed a motherboard. The bizarre conglomeration of directories made no sense, to me, until your comment, above. https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/SZkbx0H8W09msV5jVjpliw But it strikes me, though, are these empty directories something that ought to get erased once the kernel has been installed? Is there any point to them being there. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx