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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: fsck trashes / if no /lost+found?
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:06:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <95Apr17.194031pdt.49864@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Apr 17, 95 07:40:28 pm
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As Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> I am running SNAP-950322.  I crashed hard, and on the way up, fsck tried to
> reconnect a file when fsck'ing /usr.  Apparently, for some reason there was
> no /usr/lost+found, and fsck printed an error something like "no room in /"
> when it said it was trying to create it.  The fsck failed, and when I fsck'd
> manually it said there was no /, and it ended up reconnecting all the
> directories in /lost+found (after creating /lost+found).

Terry tells about this every second day. :-)

Time to add the appropriate part to newfs(8)?
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)