Re: Strange files

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

They SHOULD be directories... and you really don't want to
delete them (other than to recreate them properly).

lost+found is where fsck wil put files that haven't been
deleted, but don't have a directory pointing to them.
(normally a sign of noticable disk corruption after a
system crash).

There should be a lost+found directory in the root directory
of each (disk-based) filesystem you have mounted on your box.

/root is (on many systems) where the root (superuser) user's
home directory usually is. Once again -- it's generally
considered bad karma to remove the root user's home directory)

the 031XXX
would (according to Linux bits) say that it's both a character
device and a fifo(named pipe). with the sticky bit set.
a 7 instead of the 3 would mean that it's also a directory (!).

either the perm bits are very different for your OS, or it
managed to do something VERY strange with those two directories.



gerardo juarez-mondragon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of files are present in /. These is what ls -l tells me:
> 
> ?r--rw--wt  13873  2573    11826   4294967295  Apr 19 1998 lost+found
> ?---r-xrwT  12846 14387    14387   4294967295  Aug 15 1995 root
> 
> This is what 'file' tells me:
> 
> /root: sticky file: invalid mode  031056
> /lost+found: sticky  file: invalid mode 071463
> 
> I am installing it, so it's not connected to the network or anything.
> Does anyone have an idea where these files came from, why can't I 
> erase them ("Operation not permitted") and why so early (disks are 
> brand new)?

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