[ale] lost+found

Randal Jarrett rsj at radio.org
Sat Dec 16 20:28:20 EST 2006


The lost+found directory should not be used for anything
other than fsck.

files normally found in the lost+found directory are 
the result of fsck finding orphaned files during a 
check.  It doesn't know where they came from so it
puts them in lost+found.

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:23 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 17:59 -0500, Alex LeDonne wrote:
> > Any reason you can't create a directory
> > to expose as the ftp/http root instead (other than the fact that it
> > seems like you shouldn't have to)?
> 
> :-) No, there is no reason why it has to be the root partition, other
> than "neatness".... of course "neatness" is the reason why I want to
> clean up the log files. ;-)
> 
> I think, based on your's and Jim's advice, that I will just move
> everything out of that directory into a subdirectory.
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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