lost+found

[Mohammad Tariq Ayub]

What is the use of loast+found ?

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

It is a directory that gets created at the same time as when a filesystem is created and mounted. It is used for lost and corrupted files generated by the 'fsck' command.

[Michael Tully]

One further thought on this. The lost+found directory places files that have lost their reference from the running of 'fsck'. It is intended that the files are to be examined prior to removal. If of course the files are old, then yes go ahead and remove them. Just as a small precaution, you may wish to backup the contents before doing so.

[T G Manikandan]

This document has a good explanation of the lost+found

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000066258888