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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:38:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   background fsck did not create lost+found
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301201630350.22474-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>

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Hello,
After building new world and installing new kernel, I rebooted my machine
to launch a new kernel. The system mysteriously failed to flush 22 disk
buffers, and after reboot fsck was launched. I have the following
partitions:

/ - UFS1
/usr - UFS2
/home - UFS1

This massive disk mangling occured on /usr, but still, one file in /home
got lost - which happened to be quite important file. Background fsck
logged:

Jan 20 16:06:30 stronghold root: /dev/ad1s1d: UNREF FILE I=1723065
OWNER=winfried MODE=100644
Jan 20 16:06:30 stronghold root: /dev/ad1s1d: SIZE=23397 MTIME=Jan 20
15:57 2003 (CLEARED)
Jan 20 16:06:30 stronghold root: /dev/ad1s1d: Reclaimed: 0 directories, 8
files, 16439 fragments
Jan 20 16:06:30 stronghold root: /dev/ad1s1d: 33802 files, 13109700 used,
6310697 free (11577 frags, 787390 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)

First two entries clearly correspond to the missing file, which should
have been put in /home/lost+found. But, the poroblem is that no lost+found
directory was created, while it should (as fsck_ffs(8) says). I guess its
a bug, probably in the background fsck code. Still, is there any way to
reclaim the file now, besides running strings(1) on the whole partition?

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