Re: e2fsck

[Ian Eure <ieure@crosssound.narrows.com>]

On a similar topic, what do directory sizes mean? I can't seem to see any direct
connection between the size of a directory in an ls -l and it's contents, or the
size of it's contents.

On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 07:04:26PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      I'd like to piggy-back on this discussion - Oliver is the first
> person I have heard talk knowledgeably lost+found.  
> 
>      I have never found any files in lost+found, but ls-l and du
> always show it as 12kb, even in a brand new file system.  What is
> occupying those 12k?
> 
> Bob
> --
> 
> "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 
> > "Jieyao" wrote:
> > Part of the disk damage can be that file pointers in directories can get
> > destroyed, leaving the inode used but not pointed to by anything.  If the
> > orphaned file is empty it will be removed; if it is not empty, it will be
> > reconnected into the directory lost+found, which should exist at the top
> > level of the file system - there is one of these directories for each
> > file system.  Since the orphaned file's name will have been lost, it is
> > simply given its inode number as a name.  To recover it, identify it by its
> > contents and mv it to its proper location.
> 
> 
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