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

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