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what is the use of lost+found directory in linux

I have mounted a new HDD. Its empty but contains lost+found directory. It has 157MB of size. Is it necessary or i can delete it.

michael
asked May 6, 2017
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Its an auto-generated folder in many of the UNIX systems. The system may shutdown while working with files, it may corrupted at next boot. So it will be placed in lost+found directory by fsck (Filesystem Check) tool. You don't need to remove that folder and also its impossible to recover the complete file if its corrupted and placed over there.

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jagannatharumugam
answered May 9, 2017
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