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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:25:24 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Scott Oertel <freebsd@scottevil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing large files (lost+found)
Message-ID:  <20060802162524.GB58585@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com>
References:  <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com>

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In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
> Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which 
> size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way 
> to remove this file?

If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem,
it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a failed
background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs.  You can
just delete it.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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