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Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found



On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/   (I promise to only print this list once.)
> > 
> > > cd /usr/lost+found/
> > > ls -l
> > total 176014862730
> > b-w-r-xrw-   1 12597    17448    199, 228 Jun  6  2010 #85683
> > sr-x---r-T   1 38225    52884    18446744073400402084 Jan  4  1966 #85688
> > c----ws--T   1 47531    12439    159, 161 Mar 19  2003 #85731
> 
> [...]
> 
> > br-srwsr-x   1 13510    51690    138, 231 Aug 30  2001 #87654
> > b--Sr-Srwt   1 43570    54985     21,  26 Feb 19  1979 #87675
> > drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root         1024 Dec  2 07:27 #98109
> > 
> > Ok.  I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!!
> 
> This shows your disk is severly screwed up.  It is time to make a
> backup, and see if you can reformat the disk and reinstall.  If you get
> errors like this again, I think you will have to regard the disk as
> `deceased'.

No way. File systems errors caused due to a crash or loss of
system power cause things just like this too.


Hamish
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