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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: imminent /boot problem.
From:       home user <mattisonw () comcast ! net>
Date:       2024-02-24 20:50:02
Message-ID: f7db3421-a5e5-451d-981a-d4bac3219f4f () comcast ! net
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On 2/23/24 2:51 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/23/24 11:19, home user wrote:
> > On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user <mattisonw@comcast.net \
> > > <mailto:mattisonw@comcast.net>> wrote: 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found?
> > 
> > /boot/lost+found/:
> > total 20
> > drwx------. 2 root root 12288 Mar 17  2013 .
> > dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root  5120 Feb 22 20:21 ..
> > -bash.12[boot]:
> > 
> > But what is odd is the ls -l output for /boot/lost+found/ itself.  Why is an \
> > empty directory taking up 12288 bytes?  Other directories that are not empty are \
> > only taking up 1024 bytes.
> 
> That directory might have some space pre-allocated so that entries can be created \
> even when the filesystem is in a bad state, since that's what it's for.

That makes sense.

As I vaguely implied in my response to Jon, I'm leaving it.
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