On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Something occured to me as odd this evening on the way home from school.
> I don't know why I hadn't thought about this before, but as I was
> driving I got to thinking about the dir structure in Linux and there's
> one dir that sticks out as odd more than any other. That would be the
> Lost & Found dir. What the heck is this for anyway?
I was gonna try in my own words, but the man page for mklost+found says it so
much better:
mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in
the current working directory on a Linux second extended
file system. There is normally a lost+found directory in
the root directory of each filesystem.
mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found
directory so that when e2fsck(8) is being run to recover a
filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in the
filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files.
This ensures that e2fsck will not have to allocate data
blocks in the filesystem during recovery.
---Norvell Spearman
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``Trouble is my business.''
---Philip Marlowe
