Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found
Hamish Moffatt said
> On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:25:17AM -0500, stick@richnet.net wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt said
> > > 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.)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!!
> > > >
> > > > This shows your disk is severely 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.
> > >
> > OK! I like hearing this sort of talk.
> > However, the $64K question then becomes...
> > "How do I get rid of these files!?"
>
> That's a good question. I got some recently which could just be deleted,
> but I have a handful on another system which I don't think can be.
>
> I actually have one which seems to contain another copy of /lost+found!
> Weird.
>
Well it's just gone from a weird, bothersome pain to a real problem.
I was upgrading some packages when I got some familiar error messages about
some file operations - "operation not allowed" or whatever...
Anyway, upon closer inspection I know have this:
pr---w-rwt 1 12029 4626 0 Nov 11 1926 /usr/include/lct/unicode.h
sr----S--t 1 55203 15990 1947437670 Dec 17 1909 /usr/lib/picon/usenix/com/hp/hpda/aca
So someone ***PLEASE*** tell me how I can force these files to go away.
I can accept that the underlining physical disk may (or may not) have problems
but this certainly looks like a file-system issue. Certainly there are ways
to tweak the file-system to make these entries go away!? I'll use LDE if
someone can tell me how to *safely* delete these files...otherwise, I'm going
to have to shuffle things around and wipe-out the whole partition and start
over.
>
> Hamish
> --
Thanks for the info! It's nice to know I'm not the only one who's got
these files, though it's not all that reassuring to know that any of us
can have these types of files.
> Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 hamish@rising.com.au
>
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