On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:45:45AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:34:18AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:19:41PM +0000, c...@riseup.net wrote: > > > drwx------ 2 root root 12K Jul 22 12:57 lost+found/ > > > > This entry is concerning. A typical directory shows up as taking 4 KB. > > For it to take up more it must have (or have had at some point) many > > files. > > This is normal for lost+found directories. They are intentionally created > with a bunch of files inside them, and then those files are deleted, > in order to expand the size of the directory inode, in order to make > room to accomodate a bunch of files being added to it during an fsck. > > Just in case it ever needs it. >
Wow. I learned something today. Sure enough, most of the filesystems on my machine were created in early 2005 and every single lost+found directory (most of them with mtimes in early 2005, so never having had anything them since the filesystems were creatd) are 16 KB. Neat. Thanks for the info. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
