Lost and Found Folder

I deleted a NTFS parition I had on one of my Linux media servers and created a Linux partition. It put this Lost and Found folder on the drive. I'm not sure what it's for, but is there any way to get rid of it? Thanks for any help.

 

Hi ZaZ,
this is simply folder where fsck (filesystem check utility) saves damaged files that finds, e.g. after improper shutdown.
Every ext3 partition has it and it's OS owned. Don't remove it, it could come handy one day .

 

You can remove the lost+found directory if you want, but it will be recreated the next time fsck checks the partition.

 

If I put it back to NTFS, will it re-create the folder?

 

No, it is okay it wouldn't, because the lost+found directory isn't a feature of NTFS. We tend to talk about fsck as if it was only the one program, but if you look in your /sbin directory you'll see lots of different fsck programs, there tends to be a separate program for each unix filesystem.

Code:

$ ls -1 /sbin/fsck*
/sbin/fsck
/sbin/fsck.cramfs
/sbin/fsck.ext2
/sbin/fsck.ext3
/sbin/fsck.ext4
/sbin/fsck.ext4dev
/sbin/fsck.minix
/sbin/fsck.msdos
/sbin/fsck.nfs
/sbin/fsck.reiserfs
/sbin/fsck.vfat

But Microsoft's NTFS format, is Proprietary (closed - a secret that only M$ knows), so it is best to fix its filesystem errors in M$ Windows.

 

OK, is there some way I can hide it? Thanks for the help so far.

 

There's not really a way to hide it. Why do you need it hidden? Is there a reason you can't just create a subfolder in the root of the drive and use that as the base point for everything you do? Symlinks are fun

 

I have a second drive in my HTPC, which has all my movies on it. It's more of an aesthetics thing. I just don't want it sitting in there.