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About the Lost and Found directory
Authored by: LC on Aug 02, '04 01:55:43PM

It's not necessarily that the filesystem was corrupted -- rather that an omission
was found in the directory information (sometimes due to force-quit applications,
power outages, etc.) and the system saved those inodes for you
(in lost+found, since the original directory location was no longer known
for sure). Having items saved in lost+found doesn't necessarily mean
that your disk is bad. There are other components in the system (both
software and hardware, e.g. power supplies, disk controller etc.) that
are potential culprits. Having journalling active in the mount options
does tend to reduce the possibility of orphaned inodes; Larry.



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