Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck and lost+found space Message-ID: <20040811174821.N709@toad.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <20040811075435.GA423@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20040810234448.A709@toad.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20040811075435.GA423@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've done this. The problem is stopping fsck before it starts throwing > away files. Once you stop fsck, you need to do a 'mount -f ...', > rename lost+found to something else, unmount the filesystem and > start lost+found again. This I just tried and while I was able to rename lost+found without the box panicing, it did not create a new lost+found directory, it just kept throwing things in the renamed directory. Right now I'm having a shot at recompiling fsck and having it use a different name on each run. Thanks, Charles > -- > Peter Jeremy >
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