Re: Removing files from /lost+found

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From: Aaron Kulkis
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 00:00

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/lost+found goes back to the earliest days of Unix.

when a filesystem is made, a directory /lost+found is made
just below the root of that filesystem.

When fsck finds confusion, etc, it puts the remains in /lost+found.

that way, you know where it is....and you can figure out what to
do with it at your leisure.

Howard Arons wrote:
> 
> Phil Reardon <pcr@pcrt.com> wrote:
> 
> >I wonder, would it be dangerous to do rm -r lost+found from / as root, then
> >mkdir lost+found?
> 
> An even more basic question--what are these lost+found directories?
> What created them; why? My SuSE 5.2 put them into my dir structure
> when I installed it, but they're empty.
> 
> --
> Howard Arons
> To reply change the 1's to lower case L's

-- 

Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Administrator

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Date: 1998/05/31
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