folder lost+found missing?
Hongwei Li
hongwei at wustl.edu
Fri Mar 4 19:47:08 UTC 2005
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> Hongwei Li wrote:
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | The folder lost+found in the partition /tmp of my fc3 system is
> | missing. All other partitions have it. What is the usage of
> | lost+found folder?
>
> It is served for disk checking (fsck) purposes, if I am not mistaken.
>
> | Do I need to create it for /tmp? If yes, just run mkdir ...? Do I
> | need to do anything special for it?
> |
> Well, normally, you should not care about it, defenitely, you do not
> have to create it yourself. Are you sure actually that /tmp is a
> partition in your case (and not just directory)?
> Regards,
> Maxim.
Yes, it is a partition:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1004024 229464 723556 25% /
none 517872 0 517872 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3 22177396 78348 20972492 1% /home
/dev/hda5 22177364 153728 20897080 1% /opt
/dev/hda8 1320272 34800 1218404 3% /tmp
/dev/hda6 6048320 2804988 2936092 49% /usr
/dev/hda2 22177396 573124 20477716 3% /var
Thanks!
Hongwei
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