What actually prompted me to go hunting was that a couple days ago, I downloaded the latest Central Command Vexira antivirus rescue disk iso (~11MB). After a system crash (my own fault, as these things usually are), I noticed that chkdsk picked up on the fact that the iso was orphaned. After the system came up I was able to verify that indeed, my download directory for Central Command was empty. I wanted to reclaim the 11MB which I figured would be somewhere in lost+found.
One quick follow-up to this, then: are the contents in lost+found included in disk space calculations? My guess is that they are, as I haven't seen mention of some automated purge function to clear or age the contents, so it would probably be unwise to exclude the contents from these figures.
Dave Kleikamp wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2003 08:10, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
Hmmm... I noticed some posts here concerning OS/2, so my assumption
(I know, I know :-) ) was that this was for JFS on all platforms.
Does JFS on Linux handle the lost+found directory contents much
differently than on OS/2, Dave?
No. When fsck (chkdsk on OS/2) finds valid files or directories that don't appear to be in any directory, it places them in /lost+found. Often you can look at the contents of the file or directory and figure out where it came from. Things usually end up here if a directory gets damages beyond repair. The contents of the directory will no longer have a "home" and fsck will put them in /lost+found.
I'm not sure about OS/2 setting the system and hidden attributes in OS/2, but otherwise, it's the same behavior.
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