Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck
Peter Jeremy
peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Wed Mar 5 18:58:48 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:15PM +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote:
>/home/lost+found# ls -lksh
>total 24432
>24432 -r-------- 1 root operator 40G Mar 5 20:12 #0000005
>
>It is 40G in size but only occupies 24432k on disk, so it is a sparse file.
The file permissions and sparseness matches a snapshot. If your FS
is 40GB then it is a snapshot.
>/home/lost+found# rm \#0000005
>override r-------- root/operator snapshot for #0000005? n
The file itself is not writable so rm prompts. This is normal.
>Is there a magic "shapshot" flag on the file? Have I somehow damaged my
>ufs2+softupdates filesystem by losing its inode #5 containing snapshot
>data?
No and no. You can have multiple snapshots in a filesystem.
--
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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