Norvell Spearman wrote:
>
> 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
> ---------------------------
> ``Trouble is my business.''
> ---Philip Marlowe
Wow!...thanks Norvell. That's interesting. And I certainly never would
have thought to look for that info in the 'man' pages.
--
Mark
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