[iyonix-support] Re: Lost+Found query
- From: tennant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tennant Stuart)
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 19:10:55 +0100
On Sat 7 May 2011 (09:07:35 +0100), Andrew Pinder wrote:
>In message on 7 May 2011 John Woodhouse wrote:
>> I am in the process of doing some long-overdue clearing out of a
>> hard-disc and have discovered that the directory "Lost+Found" now
>> contains 2,010 files amounting to 82,462,326,784 bytes! They are
>> all dated 21 April 2011 but I cannot think what happened on that
>> day to produce this data.
Am I reading that correctly - over 82 billion and you didn't notice?
>> Can someone explain what has probably happened and, more importantly,
>> say whether I can delete it all to make some very useful space?
> I believe they are generated by DiscKnight when correcting errors on
> your disc.
> Try opening them in a text editor to see what the contents are.
You want him to look at over two thousand files of about 40 Mb each?
Tennant Stuart
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