🚀 go-pugleaf

John Saunders wrote:

> Brian McCauley wrote in message ...
> >david Bowie <dbowie@turing.une.edu.au> writes:
> >
> >> Listed below are a selection of files stubbornly residing in
> >> /lost+found. I've managed to remove most of
> >> them but still over 1000 remain.
> >
> >These will be corrupt, immuable, device inodes.  You can only get rid
> >of them with a low-level filesystem editor (see previous posts on the
> >topic) as chattr does not work on device inodes for non-existant
> >devices.
>
> The only way to really clear these is to boot up single user
> mode with the disk unmounted (or mounted read-only if it's the
> root filesystem). Make a list of the file (The #nnnn number is
> the inode number, you can confirm this by doing ls -i) inodes
> into a file. Edit the file so that it's a list of commands like
>
>     clri <inode-number>
>
> With with <inode-number> replaced by the inode number of
> the file, of course. You can do this by...
>
>     cd /lost+found ; ls -i | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e '1,$ s/^/clri /'
> >script_file
>
> Then run debugfs with the -w and -f option to clear the inodes.
> When debugfs exits, run a full e2fsck. This should detect the now
> unreferenced files from lost+found and remove them.
>
>     debugfs -w -f script_file
>     e2fsck -fvy /dev/...
>
> I had a machine once that use to mangle the news spool once a
> week (turned out to be memory problems). Anyway this proceedure
> became second nature.
>
> Oh yeah, almost forgot the disclaimer. What you are about to do
> is serious black magic so anything you trash is your own
> responsibly. :) Make sure to read up the man pages first.
>
> >My advice is that unless you are running low on inodes (do "df -i")
> >that you simply move them to a graveyard directory and forget about
> >them.
>
> That's certainly the easiest way :)
>
> Cheers.
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