Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:13:51 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lost+found ??? Message-ID: <199603211613.KAA02561@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603211259.NAA13192@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 21, 96 01:59:43 pm
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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 gotta agree with this stand even though I hate lost+found directories cluttering up my directory hierarchies.... :-) oh, and Jordan, Suns create lost+found at mkfs time - I'm looking at the source that does the deed. They _will_ also create it at fsck time if it does not exist, but it looks like that's handled as an "unusual" condition. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc. 414/362-3308 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@mei.com
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