"found.000" directory after fsck

I'm having troubles accessing some files on an external disk giving me the following error:

ls: cannot access file.pdf: Input/output error

Some solutions suggested performing a disk check with fsck which I did.

Now when I mounted my disk again. I have found a new folder on its root found.000.

What is that folder? Is it safe to delete?

1 Answer

The found.000 folder seems to be the output folder used by fsck in order to write the files it recover from the bad area on the disk.

It is possible that some corrupted data on your disk can be found there.

I'd suggest keeping this folder for a while.

I think that you can delete this folder when you'll be sure that no important data should be recover.

You can read more about it here :

Note that Unix system usually save such files in /lost+found (see this question)