From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: Strange files Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:58:18 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EE92FBA.6050905@bcgreen.com> References: <70512EE9B64BF8B4E8A2D1ED51D43A83@gjuarezmondragon.metacrawler.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <70512EE9B64BF8B4E8A2D1ED51D43A83@gjuarezmondragon.metacrawler.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: gerardo juarez-mondragon Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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)? -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life.