"H . J . Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I don't know how important it is. I have a damanged partition under
| Linux. There are some wild files under /lost+found. All of them are
| device files with strange values in st_size and st_blocks. As the
| result, du gives some wild numbers on them, something like "216T".
| Here is a klude I use. I am not very sure if it is 100% correct.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Your corrupted files are all device files.
What if some had been files or directories?
I'm not convinced that patch would be generally useful.

Does anyone know if a non-regular, non-directory, non-symlink
may have nonzero size st_size?

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