OK to delete what's in lost+found?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On 14.02.2004 21:34, Rob Brandt wrote:
> I've noticed that I've got 2 gb of files in lost+found.  None are dated newer
> than November 2002.  I used to have a problem with bad RAM that would cause
> linux to crash, and it was happening frequently.  I suspect that's when these
> files were generated.  I haven't missed anything.
> 
> Is it OK to delete these, or is there some magic reason that they still need to
> be in lost+found?

No, you can kill these. If you haven't had a need to use them in 
over a year, then it's highly unlikely you will require them. They 
are created by fsck during filesystem check, which usually happens 
after a system crash (though this is rarely the case any more with 
ext3 and journaling). If fsck finds anything odd or inconsistent 
with the disk, it will sometimes put stuff into lost+found in case 
it's some of your data that you might need to recover.

As you haven't needed it until now, it's probably safe to remove it.

Regards,
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