On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:57 -0600, 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? Do > I need to create it for /tmp? If yes, just run mkdir ...? Do I need to > do anything special for it? lost+found is a dir which exists on each partition. It's used to store recovered data in case you had a fs-inconsistency and fsck tried to repair it but was left with some chunks of data which it couldn't "sort in" -- these chunks go to lost+found for you to recover manually later. /tmp is per definition a directory which holds temporary data which does not have to survive a reboot. Hence a recovery of that dir/partition during reboot doesn't really make sense -- the data to be recovered is uselelss anyhow. AFAIR /tmp is actually cleaned automatically at every reboot. It may very well be a bug of the cleaning routine to also delete lost +found in the progress during reboot. Whether this is is a serious one however is not so clear to me -- you're never supposed to recover anything on this partition anyhow... HaJo > > Thanks! > > Hongwei Li > -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
