Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found
Date	2017-05-20 02:45 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<eo9oukFt63cU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2017-05-20, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
> It was created Oct 4 at 2:35 AM and last modified 3 hours later.

The existence of that file means your startup drive is experiencing
problems. You should probably run Disk Utility's First Aid function
ASAP.

To see what the iNode file contains, run the 'xar' command in a terminal
window like so:

xar -xf /lost+found/iNode4789234

> That was about the time I upgraded to Sierra.  I hate the way Apple
> pushes upgrades. I want to be sure my file structure is okay and I'm
> backed up, but if I click NO, Apple takes it as YES.

How so? I'm still running El Capitan on several machines and haven't
been forced to upgrade them. In fact Apple has *never* forced me to
upgrade.

> IIRC, I squeezed in a backup while the update was downloading, then
> went to bed. When I returned, all seemed to have gone well.
>
> Now it looks as if the upgrade hit a stumbling block.

Are you saying that just because the iNode file is there?

> Could there be any harm in dumping the file (or the folder?) into the
> trash and emptying?

Well yeah, you could lose whatever is in it...

-- 
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JR

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4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-19 21:10 -0400
  Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-19 21:24 -0400
  Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-20 02:45 +0000
    Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-20 00:27 -0400
      Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-20 16:17 +0000
        Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-20 13:26 -0400
          Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-20 17:48 +0000
            Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-20 17:44 -0400
              Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-20 23:13 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-05-20 20:01 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-21 01:46 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-05-20 23:14 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-21 04:55 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-20 22:11 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-21 03:18 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-21 13:55 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-22 19:58 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-05-23 14:11 +1200
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-22 22:29 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-26 07:58 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-05-26 15:51 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-05-26 12:52 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-26 17:34 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-05-27 15:39 +0000
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2017-05-29 00:00 -0400
                Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-05-29 19:03 +0000
      Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-05-22 06:40 +0000
  Re: 4.8GB iNode file in Lost+Found Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-05-22 06:33 +0000

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