Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:05:11 -0700 From: Scott Oertel <freebsd@scottevil.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing large files (lost+found) Message-ID: <44D0DB47.5040301@scottevil.com> In-Reply-To: <20060802165728.GC58585@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44D0C36C.2050902@scottevil.com> <20060802162524.GB58585@dan.emsphone.com> <44D0D498.1030405@scottevil.com> <20060802165728.GC58585@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > >> Dan Nelson wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #00000005: >> Operation not permitted >> > > I mean touch some other file :) > > But I just remembered the correct way to determine if a file is a > snapshot: "ls -lo". If the flags field contains the word "snapshot" > for that file, it's a snapshot. > > Good call, yeah.. it is a snap shot file, I suppose I'll try and remove it, hopefully removing a 450GB file doesn't lock up the system.. # ls -lo -r-------- 1 root operator snapshot 482801995408 Jul 31 05:52 #00000005 Thanks, Scott Oertel
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