folder lost+found missing?

[sakshale at equoria.net]

Quoting Edwin Dicker <fedora at dicker.nl>:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>
> To: "Alexander Bostr öm" <abo at kth.se>
> Cc: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, 04 March, 2005 20:41
> Subject: Re: folder lost+found missing?
> >
> > But my question is: do I need to create it and do something special?  It
> > was there when I first setup this fc3 system.  Also, why does the system
> > need it?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Hongwei
>
> No, you do not need to create it. It will be created by fsck when checking
> your filesystem and when it finds allocated blocks of data which are not
> registered in your filesystems superblock.
> This can happen when your system experiences an unclean shutdown e.g. by a
> hard reset of the system or when the system 'hangs' due to incorrect
> programcode.
>
> HTH
> Edwin

That is good news.  Do you have any idea when that feature was added?
I was burned just recently by a Solaris 7 box that was missing its
lost+found directory on a data partition....  Which is why I had the
script handy.

Sakshale



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