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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:20:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: lost+found ???
Message-ID:  <199603211620.IAA23838@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 21, 96 07:33:47 am

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> 
> >As Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > What do I need to do?
> >> 
> >> Nothing, fsck creates them as it needs them.
> >
> >...thereby happily destroying arbitrary disk data if it has to extend
> >the root directory and fails to find free space to do so.
> >
> >newfs should create it.
> 
> I agree.  Terry brought this up some time ago and I agreed with it then.

I concur, the automagic stuff is fine as long as you never fill a disk,
which then just happens to causes some strange panic, which fsck then
goes to clean up and polity clobbers a root dir block while trying to
find space to create lost+found.  Not a pretty picture at all.... :-(


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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