Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

[Tod McQuillin]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Peter.

So, it's a shapshot -- is it still usable?  Is it safe to delete it?

snapinfo doesn't know about it:

# snapinfo -v /home
/dev/ad4s2e mounted on /home
         no snapshots found

I'm not in the habit of making snapshots ... but it might have come from a 
dump -L.

Anyway, I think the conclusion is that it's a snapshot, of mysterious 
origin, and it's probably not useful.

Thanks again,
-- 
Tod MCQuillin