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From: Brian McCauley
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00

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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.

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.

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From: Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Removing files from /lost+found
Date: 1998/05/21
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