Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-31 Thread tytso
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:35:44PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > *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 e2fsck uses /lost+found by name, not by inode. It will recreate a new lost+found directory

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
H. Peter Anvin writes: > 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. Bzzt. /lost+f

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mo McKinlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Today, H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello people... the original question was: can lost+found be > > *renamed*, i.e. does the tools (e2fsck &c) use "/lost+found" by name, > > o

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 ino

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Thunder from the hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > A file-system without a lost+found directory is like love without sex. > You mean, possible but leaving you unsatisfied? Well, I think a file > system without a lost+found

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 26, 2001 01:19:49 PM -0500 James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW IBM's JFS file system does not have a lost+found directory. I dont > remember if reiserfs does or not. > reiserfsck creates it. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> A file-system without a lost+found directory is like love without sex. You mean, possible but leaving you unsatisfied? Well, I think a file system without a lost+found is a lot worse. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe f

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 01/26/01 01:19 PM James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FWIW IBM's JFS file system does not have a lost+found directory. I dont >> remember if reiserfs does or not. > > Actually it does. > > From one of my rs/6000's sitting here, with a pretty much defa

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego) wrote: > > I think JFS indeed doesn't have it. And ReiserFS doesn't too. This > should be common place for journaling filesystems. No, it's nothing to do with journaling or not. Even journaling filesystems can suffer

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread NDias
On 01/26/01 01:19 PM James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FWIW IBM's JFS file system does not have a lost+found directory. I dont >remember if reiserfs does or not. >Jim Actually it does. >From one of my rs/6000's sitting here, with a pretty much default AIX install: # uname -a AIX

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread patrick . mourlhon
alias ls="ls -I "lost+found"' On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: > > > > > > An other maybe too obvious way, could be to : > > > > alias ls='ls | grep -v "lost+found"' > > This turns multiple column output into one single column. > > Regards, > > /Mike - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego)
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:19:49PM -0500, James Lewis Nance wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:49:31AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rob Kaper wrote: > > > Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the > > > Get used to it. This is pa

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread patrick . mourlhon
An other maybe too obvious way, could be to : alias ls='ls | grep -v "lost+found"' if you are really annoyed by this tiny thing, which is IMHO, really the least thing i could be annoyed of... This took part on Unix file system design, from the old days, as mentioned earlier by others. Also th

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread Andreas Dilger
Rob Kaper writes: > Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the > time because 99.9% of my time it's just useless and I really think > .lost+found (a hidden file) would make much more sense for daily use. I > assume this would require some ext2 changes as well as a

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread James Lewis Nance
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:49:31AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rob Kaper wrote: > > Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the > Get used to it. This is part of the Linux/Unix heritage! A file-system > without a lost+found directory

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rob Kaper wrote: > If this is ext2 specific, just say so and I'll find a better list to discuss > this: (any good ext2 lists available for example?) > > Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the > time because 99.9% of my time it's just use