From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 17:22:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA27305 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27298 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA04417; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 11:52:37 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971031115237.63710@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 11:52:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: sporkl@dti.net Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: Lost+found References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from sporkl on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:53:46PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:53:46PM +0000, sporkl wrote: > Hello. > > I was given advice to look for something in my lost+found > directory, which I have seen on other systems. Where would this be? I ran > /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb but I can't find it. Where would it be if it > is there, which I doubt? You're leaving a lot unsaid here. Has the system crashed? fsck creates them only when it needs them, in the root directory of each file system which needs it. If you have your home directory in /home, as you should, and you're looking for a file called, say, startx.log, and it's not where it should be after the crash, you should look for it in /home/lost+found, where it will have a name like #432425. Greg