Amish Mehta (Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 7:53 AM) keys in: > when I checked lost+found there were around 1200 files > of size 4GB(HD space is 8GB). 'ls -l' doesnt show type > of the file(it shows '?' question mark) > I try to remove those files it says but that too fails.
I remember such an instance which happened with me last year. I was using TurboLinux 6.0 and it had one of those 2.2.13/5/7 kernels. > /lost+found also shows several block and character devices > So what are theses files? How do I remove these files? I didn't get a messed up /lost+found, but I did get character/block devices in my data-directories. The file names are probably just placeholders. You will need a filesystem guru to attempt recovering data from that. > does it mean I have lost the files? > What files were lost? How do I find? Yes. You _have_ lost files amounting to the extra free space which you are observing. > suprisingly all daily operations seem to be working fine. You haven't mentioned if you have separate partitions such as /usr /var, but that can be safely assumed, I guess. As long as you are not using any data/executables/libraries/whatever from the partition which is corrupted, you won't notice any change in daily operations. To summarize, there has been some amazing screw-up somewhere in the filesystem data-structures. e2fsck wouldn't be able to find any inconsistency with it even if you run it again. So, the best thing you can do is to take a backup of whatever data you still have on the partition, format it and then reuse it. If possible, get the latest stable kernel version (2.4.16?) and use it. :-) _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
