I have an empty seperate partition used for my vhd/virtualbox. mounted at /mount/win7.
I've deleted everything now and there's a lost+found folder left over. It takes up about 5gigs
Is it safe to remove a lost and found folder?
Filesystem – Is It Safe to Delete a lost+found Folder?
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There are two command line tools available for Ubuntu to recover deleted files on an NTFS partition:
ntfsundelete: see details in this answer and in another answer here.
testdisk: see a detailed guide from CG-Security
Just to mention this in case you are uncomfortable with the command line. There is a graphical tool NTFS undelete available for Windows only.
Try this:
sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*
Of course replace the * with the folder that you wish to delete or else everything in the trash will be deleted.
Best Answer
fsck will recreate the lost+found directory if it is missing.
On startup most distributions run fsck if the filesystem is detected as not being unmounted cleanly.
As fsck creates the lost+found directory if it is missing, it will create it then and place anything that it finds into that directory.
So you can remove it but not recommended (as per Marcelo comment).