On Aug 8, 2011 8:19 PM, "Karol Babioch" <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > since the free space on my system is getting less and less, I was about > to clean it up when realizing that my "lost+found" directory on this > ext4 formatted partition is about 37G big. > > The system hasn't crashed so far, wasn't shutdown improperly (as it is > attached to a UPS), so its seems quite strange to me. I immediately > unmounted the partition and ran an fsck (both with and without the force > parameter), but it hasn't reported anything wrong, nor cleaned up the > directory. > > I'm now a little bit concerned as to why this happened and what to do > about the directory. Can it be safely removed? Where do this 37G come from? > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch > Are there any files in this directory? If you had no system problems, it shall be empty. --Kwpolska
