deleting lost+found directory

[Vincent Poy]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> >
> > 	Tried that, didn't work...
>
> > 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
>
> Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.

	I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:

UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
RECONNECT? yes

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY


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