purpose of lost+found..?

Answer Posted / t.k.chaitanya

while the system boots it runs fsck on each file system, and
if any inconsistancy is found then it tryes to correct it.
but if it is not able then then it it creates a Lost+Found
directory and writes thes files into it

ex: inode incosidtant files
unreferenced files etc.

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