Re: Removing files from /lost+found

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From: Howard Arons
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 00:00

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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.

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Howard Arons
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From: h1arons@mail1.comcat.com (Howard Arons)
Subject: Re: Removing files from /lost+found
Date: 1998/05/25
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