Quoting Edwin Dicker <fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Alexander Bostr öm" <abo@xxxxxx> > Cc: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
