I'd like to piggy-back on this discussion - Oliver is the first person I have heard talk knowledgeably lost+found.
I have never found any files in lost+found, but ls-l and du always show it as 12kb, even in a brand new file system. What is occupying those 12k? Bob -- "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > > "Jieyao" wrote: > Part of the disk damage can be that file pointers in directories can get > destroyed, leaving the inode used but not pointed to by anything. If the > orphaned file is empty it will be removed; if it is not empty, it will be > reconnected into the directory lost+found, which should exist at the top > level of the file system - there is one of these directories for each > file system. Since the orphaned file's name will have been lost, it is > simply given its inode number as a name. To recover it, identify it by its > contents and mv it to its proper location. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null