Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:57:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Scott Oertel <freebsd@scottevil.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing large files (lost+found) Message-ID: <20060802165728.GC58585@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <44D0D498.1030405@scottevil.com> References: <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com> <20060802162524.GB58585@dan.emsphone.com> <44D0D498.1030405@scottevil.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >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. > > The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #00000005: > Operation not permitted I mean touch some other file :) But I just remembered the correct way to determine if a file is a snapshot: "ls -lo". If the flags field contains the word "snapshot" for that file, it's a snapshot. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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