Re: folder lost+found missing?

From: HaJo Schatz (hajo_at_hajo.net)
Date: 03/05/05

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Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:36:06 +0800

    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
    > 

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