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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:17:39 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck and lost+found space
Message-ID:  <20040811061739.GD63484@pc5.i.0x5.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040810234448.A709@toad.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
References:  <20040810234448.A709@toad.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>

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* Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]:
> I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found
> directory on another device, but no such luck.  Is there anything else
> that I'm overlooking?  I'm willing to try anything since I'm doing all
> this on a junk box with a ton of space that I can panic without it
> bothering anyone.

I'm not sure whether this has been suggested before.

Can you stop fsck just before it begins to throw away files? Then you
could perhaps rename lost+found (perhaps with fsdb) and rerun fsck.

Just an idea,
Nicolas



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