removing large files (lost+found)
Scott Oertel
freebsd at scottevil.com
Wed Aug 2 16:36:43 UTC 2006
Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #00000005:
Operation not permitted
-Scott Oertel
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