[arch-general] lost+found is quite big, although I haven't lost anything?

[Kwpolska]

On Aug 8, 2011 8:19 PM, "Karol Babioch" <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> since the free space on my system is getting less and less, I was about
> to clean it up when realizing that my "lost+found" directory on this
> ext4 formatted partition is about 37G big.
>
> The system hasn't crashed so far, wasn't shutdown improperly (as it is
> attached to a UPS), so its seems quite strange to me. I immediately
> unmounted the partition and ran an fsck (both with and without the force
> parameter), but it hasn't reported anything wrong, nor cleaned up the
> directory.
>
> I'm now a little bit concerned as to why this happened and what to do
> about the directory. Can it be safely removed? Where do this 37G come
from?
>
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch
>
Are there any files in this directory?  If you had no system problems, it
shall be empty.
--Kwpolska