DUO and Lost+Found files

[muzicman61]

I have about 30gb of files in my Lost+Found folder (as seen from my Windows PC). I delete them and they just come back. How can I get rid of them permanently? I have no idea what they are and would like to recover the space. I tried to delete them via ssh but when I go into that directory I don't see the file even using the ls -la command. Thanks!

[StephenB]

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@muzicman61 wrote:

I tried to delete them via ssh but when I go into that directory I don't see the file even using the ls -la command. Thanks!

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You should be able to go into the lost+found folder.  Where are you looking?

Generally speaking, when linux uncovers file system issues, it will often put files (or parts of files) into lost+found.  This can happen when the system does a volume scan (which if often does when the NAS boots).

A brute-force approach is to back up the NAS, do a factory default, reconfigure it, and then restore the data from backup.  But you might want to check the disk health before you do that.

[muzicman61]

Hey Stephen.... long time no see.

The health of the disks are fine.  So I am seeing these files when i browse the root of the nas in Windows (\\ipaddress\c\lost+found).  There is a lost+found directory and if i delete the files they go away, but then once i refresh the directory they come right back.

I used Putty to ssh directly into the DUO.  From the root I saw the lost+found folder.  I cd'd into that folder but don't see any files.

I could back everything up to another nas and do the restore but that seems like a drastic solution.

[StephenB]

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@muzicman61 wrote:

I used Putty to ssh directly into the DUO.  From the root I saw the lost+found folder.  I cd'd into that folder but don't see any files.

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Do you mean the OS partition, or did you also look on /c for the lost+found folder?

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@muzicman61 wrote:

Hey Stephen.... long time no see.

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Definitely been a while   Nice to hear from you.