The lost+found folder is created so that e2fsck is guaranteed to have a place to stash "orphaned inodes" --- inodes which are not referenced by a directory. Hence lost+found is deliberately created with extra empty directory blocks to make sure that there will be space to drop the orphaned inodes.
A system administrator can choose to remove it, just as a system administrator can make /bin and /usr/bin and /dev/* world-writable, and many other fundamentally dangerous/stupid things. But it's as they say, not recommend. -- Ted -- Delete "lost+found" folder automatically if it's empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
