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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:29:16 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: lost+found ??? 
Message-ID:  <199603211629.JAA13464@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199603211259.NAA13192@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org>

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> >> > 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.

If we want it, the code is all there for it.  Simply defined -DLOSTDIR
in the newfs Makefile.  Unfortunately, I'm not able to test it as my
'test' box is doing just that right now.



Nate



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