lost+found is a special case: fsck is much more reliable at recovering files
when lost+found has empty directory entries preallocated (otherwise it has to
allocate a block from a known-corrupt filesystem, which can lead to
disaster); so when lost+found is created, a bunch of files are created in it
and then removed to preallocate entries in it.
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