Lost + found?

[Odyssey]

The hdd (500GB SATA) of my new Ubuntu 8.04 install is set up:

Primary partitions:
sda1 46.7 GB NTFS (Cannot for the life of me remember why I formated sda1 as NTFS.)
sda2 1.86 /swap
sda3 7.45 /
Extended:
sda4 409.88
sda5 37.25 /home
sda6 372.66 /media/disk

Under "Places" there appear two (slightly different icons, presumeably having to do with the different formatting): 50 GB Media and 400.1 GB Media. These appear to be sda1 and sda6 respectively.

When I click on the 400 GB icon, it shows only one folder: Lost + Found with properties as: contents unreadable and 350.9GB of free disk space. One forum post says:

Quote:
lost+found is a directory that fsck uses to store any unconnected files or directories it finds after a dirty shutdown

Don't recall any traumatic shutdowns, but I found all of this as a result of trying to copy files from my windows computer into this partition and got a "no permission to write to this.." denial. And when I right click into the empty space below the "Lost + Found" the Create Folder, Create Document, and Paste options are all greyed out.

Any ideas how to figure out what, if anything, is in Lost + Found (doubt it) and what to do about restoring permissions?

[Roxoff]

You need root permissions to look into this directory. Remember that Linux is a multi-user operating system by design, so if one user has a file go missing, it doesn't want to turn up in Lost&Found and be readable by anyone.

There is nothing wrong with your permissions for this directory.

[peteh]

Unless you amend it only your home dir is available to you. If you have a spare dir for personal use you need to become root and change the permissions.

[Odyssey]

OK, this worked:

robert@CoreDuo:/media/disk$ sudo mkdir files
robert@CoreDuo:/media/disk$ ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-10-07 16:16 .
robert@CoreDuo:/media/disk$ ls
files lost+found
robert@CoreDuo:/media/disk$ sudo chown robert files
robert@CoreDuo:/media/disk$ sudo chgrp robertgroup files

Now copying over, albeit slower than I had expected (650KB/sec +/-)

Thanks to both.