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In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!
At one point, I had one where the directory structure was completely broken and had circles in it (broken SSD). To be fair, in that particular case, I did not look for lost+found and just wrote a tool to extract the data manually that I was looking for.
In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!
In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!
fsck on large hard drives was scary on how long it could take to finish.
In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!
In reallife I would rename this to "trash".
I had a lost+found folder in all Unix file systems I used since the 80s. It's where fsck places files that it found during a scan and can't figure out to which directory they belong. Sometimes I found stuff in there. From what I googled XFS, Btrfs and ZFS don't use lost+found. It's a thing of the old not journaled filesystems and of the ext family.
Based on comments in the kernel source, it seems like the userspace fsck for JFS and F2FS will also sometimes create /lost+found. There might be more that do.