Cannot mount hard disk

[Paul Smith]

On 10/10/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > Thanks, Andy. The directory 'lost+found' in /dev/sdc2 is empty. Should I worry?
>
> No... basically fsck (or maybe ext3 itself, I don't know) will stick
> orphaned blocks of data in lost+found when it has "fixed" the data
> structures in the filesystem so that data is no longer reachable.
>
> It's a sort of last ditch place you can grep for bits of text in lost
> files and so on.  If there's nothing in there, it just suggests no
> blocks of data were orphaned by the fixes.

Thanks again, Andy. I am now more relieved!

Paul