Maybe purchased in 2020? Seagate Barracuda 2TB.
2025-03-02
lost+found/ holds files from Dropbox backup that was running from 2020 through maybe 2023? The Dropbox directory was corrupted or something, and lost+found is the dir where ext4 filesystems put recovered files. If I recall correctly, it holds very roughly 700GB of files, in many arbitrarily-named subdirs.
My plan is to keep the lost+found dir and its data the way it is currently, at least until the new Dropbox backup I began running today on a new 2TB HDD has completed (in who knows how many days or weeks). Perhaps I'll just keep it forever, as a partial second backup.
Used regex that lists the top level directories and their subdirectories, excluding hidden ones.
anthony@bluey:/media/home2TB$ find . -maxdepth 2 -type d | grep -v "\./\..*" find: ‘./lost+found’: Permission denied . ./anthony_old ./Pictures ./Pictures/2011.10.16 ./Pictures/2011.7.4 ./Pictures/my_flix ./Pictures/2011.8.5 ./Pictures/all_canon_2011.7.22 ./Pictures/.TemporaryItems ./Pictures/Clix_photos_2011.11 ./Pictures/2012.1.17 ./Pictures/my_pix ./Pictures/2012 ./Pictures/2011.11.18 ./Backups ./Backups/rad_laptop ./Backups/cmu_drive ./Backups/.TemporaryItems ./Backups/hcnlab ./Backups/canada_drive ./Backups/dell_laptop ./Backups/hcnlab_dvds ./Backups/presario_drive ./lost+found find: ‘./.pulse’: Permission denied ./anthony ./anthony/.gconf ./anthony/.cache ./anthony/Templates ./anthony/Music ./anthony/.config ./anthony/Pictures ./anthony/.mission-control ./anthony/Documents ./anthony/.dvdcss ./anthony/.compiz ./anthony/Videos ./anthony/Public ./anthony/.thunderbird ./anthony/lost+found ./anthony/BaseXData ./anthony/Desktop ./anthony/Downloads ./anthony/.gnome2 ./anthony/.dbus ./anthony/.mozilla ./anthony/.local ./anthony/.dropbox-dist ./anthony/.thumbnails ./anthony/.gnupg ./anthony/.dropbox ./anthony/shoutcast ./anthony/.pulse ./anthony/Dropbox (Old) ./anthony/.ssh