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Subject: Re: lost+found ???
To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:20:12 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603211533.HAA04344@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 21, 96 07:33:47 am
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> 
> >As Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > What do I need to do?
> >> 
> >> Nothing, fsck creates them as it needs them.
> >
> >...thereby happily destroying arbitrary disk data if it has to extend
> >the root directory and fails to find free space to do so.
> >
> >newfs should create it.
> 
> I agree.  Terry brought this up some time ago and I agreed with it then.

I concur, the automagic stuff is fine as long as you never fill a disk,
which then just happens to causes some strange panic, which fsck then
goes to clean up and polity clobbers a root dir block while trying to
find space to create lost+found.  Not a pretty picture at all.... :-(


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