On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Trilochan Padhi wrote:
> While fixing a corrupted file system with fsck, I got a lot of
> messages about putting inodes in lost+found. Later, I saw a
> bunch of files with odd looking names in that directory.
>
> Q1) Is it OK to delete these files?
> Q2) What is the deal with these inodes?
They are (probably) from files for which the directory entry is lost. This
means fsck finds the file, but not its name or in which directory it was.
If this happens, it puts them in lost+found with some strange name.
Frank
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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