On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:27:01 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > Lost+found has the following directory in it:
> > #290483
> > If I enter it I find the /root directory, with all of it's contents, I
> > figured this had been
> > created in a crash I had, but if I do cd /lost+found/#290483 I find I
> > am in /root.
>
> My guess is filesystem inconsistency, so you need to force a fsck when it's
> not mounted (use alternate boot media if required); how you do that depends
> on what filesystem it is. ext[23] -> e2fsck, reiserfs -> reiserfsck, etc.
> fsck calls the appropriate one, but different ones have different options.
>
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Hmm, interesting. When the crash happened it of course complained about
the file system and I ran e2fsck on it ( it is ext2) that is when it
generated various
files, and that directory. The files did not appear to have anything
in them that
was critical so I got rid of them. The directory is of course
different. I will run
e2fsck again say from a recovery CD and see what it says.
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