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