Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread frantisek holop
Alexander Hall, 30 Oct 2014 00:48: On 10/30/14 00:11, frantisek holop wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). A reinstall does not render you any lost+found directories.

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread frantisek holop
Philip Guenther, 29 Oct 2014 21:26: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). How confident are you that

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Alexander Hall
On October 30, 2014 9:33:24 AM CET, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: Alexander Hall, 30 Oct 2014 00:48: On 10/30/14 00:11, frantisek holop wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 30 00:11:49, min...@obiit.org wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? It doesn't. You must have removed it. i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread frantisek holop
Jan Stary, 30 Oct 2014 10:25: Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh system where there are no lost+found directories. These are only created when fsck needs to reattach UNREF files. these are the last lines of fsck i can see: /dev/sd0a (65714a12cd3919f3.a): UNREF FILE

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:04:22AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: Jan Stary, 30 Oct 2014 10:25: Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh system where there are no lost+found directories. These are only created when fsck needs to reattach UNREF files. these are the last

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:59:14PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:04:22AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: Jan Stary, 30 Oct 2014 10:25: Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh system where there are no lost+found directories. These are only

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread frantisek holop
Otto Moerbeek, 30 Oct 2014 12:59: fsck_ffs only creates lost+found if it needs to link a lost file, but it does not do that in preen mode. Preen mode is used by the rc script. thank you for the explanation. from the man page it seemed that preen mode is identical to normal mode except 1) uses

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:18:13PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: Otto Moerbeek, 30 Oct 2014 12:59: fsck_ffs only creates lost+found if it needs to link a lost file, but it does not do that in preen mode. Preen mode is used by the rc script. thank you for the explanation. from the man

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 30 11:04:22, min...@obiit.org wrote: Jan Stary, 30 Oct 2014 10:25: Ah, so you completely reinstalled? Then you have a fresh system where there are no lost+found directories. These are only created when fsck needs to reattach UNREF files. these are the last lines of fsck i can see:

lost+found disappeared

2014-10-29 Thread frantisek holop
what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). should i recreate it by hand? shouldn't fsck create it? especially when there were a lot of UNREF files and an unclean shutdown... (just had a panic

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-29 Thread Alexander Hall
On 10/30/14 00:11, frantisek holop wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). A reinstall does not render you any lost+found directories. should i recreate it by hand? shouldn't

Re: lost+found disappeared

2014-10-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: what does it mean when /lost+found disappears? i am sure i had it a couple of days ago (because that is when i completely reinstalled the system). How confident are you that it existed at that point? Looking at my own