removing large files (lost+found)
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Aug 2 16:25:25 UTC 2006
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
> Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which
> size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way
> to remove this file?
If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem,
it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a failed
background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs. You can
just delete it.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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