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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:22:09 +0900 (JST)
From:      Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck
Message-ID:  <20080306160720.E1647@plexi.pun-pun.prv>
In-Reply-To: <20080305185841.GU68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20080305213442.A36748@plexi.pun-pun.prv> <20080305185841.GU68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:15PM +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote:
>> /home/lost+found# ls -lksh
>> total 24432
>> 24432 -r--------  1 root  operator    40G Mar  5 20:12 #0000005
>>
>> It is 40G in size but only occupies 24432k on disk, so it is a sparse file.
>
> The file permissions and sparseness matches a snapshot.  If your FS
> is 40GB then it is a snapshot.

Thanks Peter.

So, it's a shapshot -- is it still usable?  Is it safe to delete it?

snapinfo doesn't know about it:

# snapinfo -v /home
/dev/ad4s2e mounted on /home
         no snapshots found

I'm not in the habit of making snapshots ... but it might have come from a 
dump -L.

Anyway, I think the conclusion is that it's a snapshot, of mysterious 
origin, and it's probably not useful.

Thanks again,
-- 
Tod MCQuillin




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