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SubjectRe: undeletable files in /lost+found
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Joseph Skinner wrote:

> Hi I had a problem with my filesystem and ended up with the /lost+found
> directory full of files which can not be deleted.
>
> The files have attributes like the following
>
> total 2053687446
> b--xr-Sr-x 1 12554 27769 61, 60 Dec 8 2000 #1009
> c---rwx-w- 1 26992 14898 48, 48 Jan 14 1994 #1012
> br-sr-SrwT 1 30578 14649 53, 50 Jan 21 2026 #1018
> br-xrwSr-- 1 2660 31024 60, 32 May 31 2000 #1021
>
> any idea how this sort of file may be deleted?

You'll need to use debugfs and clear the inodes. /bin/rm just won't do
it.

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