[ale] cleaning out /tmp

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> lost+found is used by journaled filesystems as a location to store those
> files it couldn't completely identify by (fully qualified path) name
> during a "full" fsck.

I don't think this has anything to do with journalling.  It's just
a place for fsck to stash blocks that it can't associate with a
file.

>  It dumps them in there with numeric names so that
> you can examine them and decide whether you want to keep them.   (Sort
> of like the old chkdisk CHK0000# files you'd get sometimes after running
> DOS' chkdisk.)

Exactly.

-- JK

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