Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:37:17 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: Corrupted partitions |
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I can confirm that e2fsck recreates the lost+found directory. It happens to me occasionally since I have two partitions used for creating/writing CDs. I usually end up deleting lost+found in the process. However, on my system e2fsck only creates a "standard" 1024-size lost+found instead of the 12288-size directory.
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hang on! In an earlier email, you said that the reason that mke2fs > preallocates 12 blocks to lost+found is because e2fsck has problems > allocating blocks when fixing a corrupted file system, but now you > state that no such problem exists !!! Which is it? > > > If you're easily amused, you can take a scratch partition, put > > some data on it, use debugfs to clri the root directory, and > > then run e2fsck and watch it recover from the damage. It will > > recreate a root directory and a lost+found directory, and put > > everything that used to be in the root directory into > > lost+found. Aside from the names of the directories and files in > > the root directory, no actual data will be lost. > > I don't have any spare scratch partitions to try anything like that > on, and I wasn't willing to scramble any of my production systems just > to find out the answer, hence my asking on here...
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