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Subject: Re: fsck and lost+found space
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> I've done this.  The problem is stopping fsck before it starts throwing
> away files.  Once you stop fsck, you need to do a 'mount -f ...',
> rename lost+found to something else, unmount the filesystem and
> start lost+found again.

This I just tried and while I was able to rename lost+found without the
box panicing, it did not create a new lost+found directory, it just kept
throwing things in the renamed directory.

Right now I'm having a shot at recompiling fsck and having it use a
different name on each run.

Thanks,

Charles

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