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From: John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: strange files
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:05:03 -0600
Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
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John Nistler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to mount my dos slice which caused a system crash(slice was
> shrunk with fips) and when the system came back up the UFS had some
> problems.  fsck(with some help/harm from me) created some of the
> lost storage in the lost+found directory.
> 
> The problem is that even root can not delete these lost files.  The
> permissions, owner, and group are really strange.
> 
> Is there anyway to get rid of these files?
Problem solved:

The chflags command proved usefull in changing the flags so that the
files could be deleted.
-- 
John Nistler