On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mo McKinlay wrote:
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> Today, H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > Hello people... the original question was: can lost+found be
> > *renamed*, i.e. does the tools (e2fsck &c) use "/lost+found" by name,
> > or by inode? As far as I know it always uses the same inode number
> > (11), but I don't know if that is anywhere enforced.
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> I seem to recall e2fsck complaining when I renamed lost+found, but that
> may well be a consistency check. Don't quote me on this, though.
(pretty easy to find out:)
[root]:# fsck -f /test
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found. Create<y>?
It created lost+found with inode 183 as 11 was used by renamed dir.
No idea if it would have trouble salvaging a corrupt fs after this.
(but logic says no it dare not)
-Mike
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