On Monday 07 September 2020 at 02:39:10, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:43:11 -0500
>
> > On 2020-09-04 22:25, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > Delete the contents all you want, but keep the lost and found
> > > directory.

> Whoops. I never realized the directory was necessary, and have always
> deleted it so backups wouldn't give an error message that they couldn't
> back it up

> So I just remade the directories I deleted ago, chmod 700, owned by
> root.root. Exactly what would I expect to find in them?

Plenty of pre-allocated space (which the above does not do).

I suggest "man mklost+found".


Antony.

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