undeletable files in /lost+found

Joseph Skinner (joe@snail.earthlight.co.nz)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:47:46 +1200


Hi I had a problem with my filesystem and ended up with the /lost+found
directory full of files which can not be deleted.

The files have attributes like the following

total 2053687446
b--xr-Sr-x 1 12554 27769 61, 60 Dec 8 2000 #1009
c---rwx-w- 1 26992 14898 48, 48 Jan 14 1994 #1012
br-sr-SrwT 1 30578 14649 53, 50 Jan 21 2026 #1018
br-xrwSr-- 1 2660 31024 60, 32 May 31 2000 #1021
br--rwsr-x 1 28019 11864 48, 54 Sep 13 2028 #1022
br-x-wS-w- 1 29811 12848 48, 48 Oct 23 1998 #1041
cr-srwS-wT 1 26978 28275 99, 46 Dec 19 2001 #1052
b--xr-s--x 1 12605 25920 46, 110 Mar 9 1996 #1055
br-xr-s--t 1 29800 8292 49, 10 Mar 24 2029 #1056

and a du produces the following

-936295712 ./#281
-1030091966 .

any idea how this sort of file may be deleted?

Joe.

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