deleting lost+found directory

Vincent Poy vince at oahu.WURLDLINK.NET
Sat Mar 6 16:01:09 PST 2004


On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:27:11AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > 	On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr,
> > fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are
> > directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove
> > these?  Thanks.
>
> They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.

	Tried that, didn't work...

root at bigbang [4:00pm][/mnt/usr] >> cd lost+found
root at bigbang [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 #5558272
drwxr-xr-x    5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 #7018496
drwxr-xr-x  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 #7206914
drwxr-xr-x   43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 #7254025
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 #7254167
drwx------    7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x   49 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  5 20:43 ..
root at bigbang [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir *
#5558272:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 .
drwx------   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7018496:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx------  7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7206914:
total 46
drwxr-xr-x  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 .
drwx------    7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7254025:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx------   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7254167:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx------    7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..
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


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