From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 21 08:27:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA18599 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18560 Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA13464; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:29:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:29:16 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603211629.JAA13464@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: J Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: lost+found ??? In-Reply-To: <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199603211259.NAA13192@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> > 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