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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906261130550.4630-100000@wr5z.localdomain> Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com) wrote:
> 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.

Understandable. If you create lost+font in emergency you'll create small
standard directory to minimally affect existing system.

> 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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