removing large files (lost+found)

[Scott Oertel]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I mean touch some other file :)
>
> But I just remembered the correct way to determine if a file is a
> snapshot: "ls -lo".  If the flags field contains the word "snapshot"
> for that file, it's a snapshot.
>
>   
Good call, yeah.. it is a snap shot file, I suppose I'll try and remove 
it, hopefully removing a 450GB file doesn't lock up the system..
# ls -lo
-r--------  1 root           operator  snapshot 482801995408 Jul 31 
05:52 #00000005

Thanks,
Scott Oertel