On Tuesday 14 February 2006 18:55, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/14/06, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did that some time ago in a simple-minded fashion, but I've had to > > revise my layout somewhat. I had an ext3 partition solely for > > /usr/portage, and it was mounted on that node, but every emerge > > --sync deleted the /lost+found directory. I don't know how serious > > that is, but of course no-one likes to > > Losing lost+found on an ext3 filesystem is pretty harmless. It is the > directory where fsck will attach files that still exist but were > detached from the directory tree (i.e, 'lost'). Since this should > *never* happen with ext3, there doesn't seem to be any point in > lost+found. > > The one exception would be if you sometimes mount the filesystem as > ext2.
And even then, the only thing that happens is that those files which where reattached there are now deleted. As finding what file it actually is is hard, and in the case of a /usr/portage partition/disk also pointless, there is no harm whatsoever in losing this directory with a sync. Removing it does certainly not influence filesystem integrity. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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