From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 16:25:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C1B16A4DE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6E743D45 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:25:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k72GPOx2094024; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:25:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:25:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Scott Oertel Message-ID: <20060802162524.GB58585@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing large files (lost+found) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:25:25 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which > size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way > to remove this file? If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem, it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a failed background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs. You can just delete it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com