lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread jb
Hi, Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery). In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:58 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc e.g. at boot time

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:58:09 + (UTC), jb wrote: Hi, Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. Correct. This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc e.g. at boot time, during

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery). In FreeBSD 9

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Tarasov
...@videotron.ca wrote: [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456 [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls Okay, it's empty. [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd .. Strange, why does .. lead you from /tmp/lost+found/#123456 to /tmp/lost+found/#123456, just as if cd wasn't executed? [/tmp/lost+found

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed: On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456 [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls Okay, it's empty. [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd .. Strange, why does .. lead you from

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:08:04 +0200, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Probably because the # is interpreted as comment. I can reproduce this in a bourne shell; not in (t)csh. Ah, thank you. According to the prompt, it didn't look like csh in the first place, but not like plain sh, too.

lost+found

2009-05-02 Thread PJ
A couple of days ago I had minor glitch as my FreeBSD box on my local intranet had an unexpected shutdown. When I fsck'd on reboot I was left with a few lost+found directories with #99 files. Most appeared inconsequential and could be deleted. But there is one /tmp/lost+found that puzzles me

Re: lost+found

2009-05-02 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456 [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls Okay, it's empty. [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd .. Strange, why does .. lead you from /tmp/lost+found/#123456 to /tmp/lost+found/#123456, just as if cd wasn't

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread vijay kumar
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Re: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread Mehul Ved
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No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
Pasted from subject: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar vijay.ku...@nirvanainfocom.com: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Please don't shout. Have you checked that / has sufficient space? Try root # fsck / --- root # df -h and post the result. Regards, Chris -- A: Because it messes up

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar vijay.ku...@nirvanainfocom.com: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Please don't shout. fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467: pfatal(SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Maybe we should tell

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/16 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/16 vijay kumar vijay.ku...@nirvanainfocom.com: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY Please don't shout. fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467:           pfatal(SORRY. NO SPACE

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk: Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more. Did UPPERCASE LETTERS make the teletype print

Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk: Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :) Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on

Ran fsck, now all files are in lost+found

2008-09-10 Thread Bryant Eadon
ran 'fsck -t ufs -y'. all seemed fine and dandy until I tried to remount the volume after bringing it back to multi-user mode. The disk space was occupied, but it all resided in lost+found with names like : #001 , #002 etc... !! Each file was multiple gigabytes worth of data

lost+found help please

2007-06-22 Thread Troy Kocher
Yesterday my server rebooted for some unknown reason and after fsck- ing 4 times I had ALOT of stuff in lost+found. I really need to try and review/recover these files. Only docs I've found were linux centric, and focused on directories and dates. I can't make out either here. Please

lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Dave
Hello, 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? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, 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

Re: lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Huff
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

removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
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? Thanks, Scott Oertel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
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

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Dan Nelson wrote: 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

RE: lost+found

2006-07-10 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello Chuck, Jerlique Bahn wrote: If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? Yes, it's still possible. The cache on the RAID card will be flushed OK, but any in-process operations by live

lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello, If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and hence freebsd's file system should have no corrupted files on the reboot

Re: lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jerlique Bahn wrote: If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? Yes, it's still possible. I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and hence freebsd's file system should

lost+found

2006-05-13 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi. Why the structure of directories in FreeBSD don't have a lost+found directory?. (Talking about 6.x Releases) Some Unix manuals tell that this directory is very important for the work of the fsck program... Thanks very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org

Re: lost+found

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Hi. Why the structure of directories in FreeBSD don't have a lost+found directory?. (Talking about 6.x Releases) Some Unix manuals tell that this directory is very important for the work of the fsck program

How do you increase the size of lost+found?

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Waite
While trying to recover from a HD crash, 'fsck -y /dev/rad1s1a' reports the following error a number of times at the end of it's run: UNREF FILE I=3537799 OWNER=500 MODE=100644 SIZE=6611 MTIME=Oct 25 21:12 2003 RECONNECT? yes SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY This tells me that it's

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2004-04-12 Thread Brad Waite
While trying to recover from a HD crash, 'fsck -y /dev/rad1s1a' reports the following error a number of times at the end of it's run. UNREF FILE I=3537799 OWNER=500 MODE=100644 SIZE=6611 MTIME=Oct 25 21:12 2003 RECONNECT? yes SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY This tells me that it's

deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
Hi everyone: On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr, fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove these? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10:26am][/mnt/usr/lost+found

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:27:11AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Hi everyone: On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr, fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:27:11AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Hi everyone: On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr, fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are directories named starting

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: They're just directories, remove them in the usual way. Tried that, didn't work... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty rm: #7018496: Directory not empty rm

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: They're just directories, remove them in the usual way. Tried that, didn't work... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty rm: #7018496: Directory not empty rm: #7206914: Directory not empty rm: #7254025: Directory not empty rm: #7254167: Directory not empty Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag). You seem

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
that, didn't work... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty rm: #7018496: Directory not empty rm: #7206914: Directory not empty rm: #7254025: Directory not empty rm: #7254167: Directory not empty Unmount

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:03:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: They're just directories, remove them in the usual way. Tried that, didn't work... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty rm: #7018496

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:03:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: They're just directories, remove them in the usual way. Tried that, didn't work... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272

Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
][/mnt/usr/lost+found] rm -rf * rm: #5558272: Directory not empty rm: #7018496: Directory not empty rm: #7206914: Directory not empty rm: #7254025: Directory not empty rm: #7254167: Directory not empty Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g

Lost + Found

2002-11-19 Thread Doron Shmaryahu
Hi, I had a server which due to power problems rebooted a couple of times. I did a fsck, because it kept complaining about inconsistencies. Now some directories seem to have moved. I located them in lost + found. Is there any way to recover these files from there ?? thanks Doron

Re: Lost + Found

2002-11-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:10:33PM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: I had a server which due to power problems rebooted a couple of times. I did a fsck, because it kept complaining about inconsistencies. Now some directories seem to have moved. I located them in lost + found. Is there any way