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machinelou
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 Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: Ok to clear /lost+found? |
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| I am in the process of moving my system to another harddrive because the original seems to be having problems. I am using the "tar" method described in this thread (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-532185-highlight-copy+harddrive.html). During the taring process, I saw a bunch of I/O errors related to /lost+found. I wasn't sure what /lost+found even was so I did a google search and it seems to be a place where data is stored that gets lost because of file-system errors. Given the description, it seems safe to just go ahead and clear the contents assuming there's nothing in there I want to save. Is that right? THanks |
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: Ok to clear /lost+found? |
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| machinelou wrote: | | ... it seems safe to just go ahead and clear the contents assuming there's nothing in there I want to save. Is that right? |
Yes, given the caveat you already noted. More info on lost+found here.
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