On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 08:39:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:43:11 -0500 > goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > > On 2020-09-04 22:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Delete the contents all you want, but keep the lost and found > > > directory. > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > > Understood. I realize that directory is necessary and would only > > delete the contents. But a reminder is always good and might be > > useful to someone else. :) > > > > golinux > > Whoops. I never realized the directory was necessary, and have always > deleted it so backups wouldn't give an error message that they couldn't > back it up because the current destination file is root.root and can't > be backed up by slitt.slitt. > > So I just remade the directories I deleted ago, chmod 700, owned by > root.root. Exactly what would I expect to find in them?
Files that have become unattached from their diretories through file-system errors. fsck puts them there instead of deleting them. But use mklost+found to create the lost+found directory, not mkdir. mklost+found makes a directory that has enough space for entries for the found files. mkdir makes an (almost) empty directory, and may not have enough space if many files are found. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
