On 10/10/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > Thanks, Andy. The directory 'lost+found' in /dev/sdc2 is empty. Should I worry? > > No... basically fsck (or maybe ext3 itself, I don't know) will stick > orphaned blocks of data in lost+found when it has "fixed" the data > structures in the filesystem so that data is no longer reachable. > > It's a sort of last ditch place you can grep for bits of text in lost > files and so on. If there's nothing in there, it just suggests no > blocks of data were orphaned by the fixes. Thanks again, Andy. I am now more relieved! Paul
