deleting lost+found directory

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 6 18:01:14 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:53:13PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > >
> > > 	Tried that, didn't work...
> >
> > > root at bigbang [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> >
> > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> 
> 	I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> 
> UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> RECONNECT? yes
> 
> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

Is the disk full or out of inodes?

Kris
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