Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:27:25 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost+found Message-ID: <17967.29533.690659.185065@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070425110028.a2690d32.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <000901c78748$de2e9ba0$0200a8c0@satellite> <20070425110028.a2690d32.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran writes: > > What is lost+found? I've got one on all my filesystems and > > over the past few days i've had things being deleted from > > there. Do i have a problem? > > When fsck finds problems with the filesystem, it saves any data > that otherwise may have been lost to this directory. To elaborate a little: When fsck finds a file that no directory thinks belongs to it. it stores that file in the "lost+found" directory of that partition as "#<inode>". Robert huff
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