I Googled for more Linux filesystem information, but all the pages I turned up are basically a clone of one another.
I know what the Lost+Found folder contains, basically, and how it gets there, but what does one 'do' with all that crap in there? Is there actually a way to recover any of it?
There are a couple folders in there, with somewhat important looking 'files' inside them, and they actually have filenames too. What to do?
Can anything be recovered? Does anything 'need' to be recovered?
Should I delete all that junk? Is there a process or a tool to use on it?

Thanks.

Hey Grapefruit, have you read this:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/morel...ter/hack96.pdf

It's a chapter from an O'Reilly book in PDF format, which you can right-click and save. It goes into great detail about what you can do with the contents of lost+found.

HTH

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Thank you rkelsen It appears to be something I haven't read.. Downloading now. Will let you know what I make of it.
Thanks again

UPDATE - Just skimmed through it -- Wow, who'da thunk the trusty fscker was so very clever!? Looks like I have a new 'area of interest' to become familiar with, as I'd like to give some recovery a try and see what I come up with.
Thing I wonder though, is let's say I can't restore some stuff (or maybe I can't recover
ANY of it) are there possibly/likely important system files missing from the system now? Eeeek, how to try and figure out what's missing from where..

Thanks again for this valuable document -- it is precisely what I wanted to know when I posted this thread.