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 laptop, I don't see one in /. Indeed, the only partitions with one are those that have needed one after a crash. newfs certainly doesn't create one by default. > should i recreate it by hand? No. > shouldn't fsck create it? Yes, it should. In fact, it does. > (just had a panic again, but this > time a blind 'boot dump' resulted > only in a reboot) I would be bidding on cheap computers on ebay and starting with the plainest install possible if my box was failing like yours. Philip Guenther