[Cialug] lost+found

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Sun Dec 16 21:28:35 CST 2012


Don't ever mess with that directory. There are pre allocated inodes to make it safer to attach lost files. 


----- Original Message -----
From: L. V. Lammert [mailto:lvl at omnitec.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 08:01 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: [Cialug] lost+found

It looks like a large array we have has a number of lost inodes (ext4), as
lost+found has gotten pretty big.

Normally oI would just delete it and relase those inodes back to the free
pool, but with "rm -rf", it complains directory not empty.

What would be the correct way to clear lost+found? The partition is way
too large to do an fsck, and it would be really nice to not have to
unmount, if possible.

	Thanks!

	Lee
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