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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:27:25 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lost+found
Message-ID:  <17967.29533.690659.185065@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070425110028.a2690d32.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <000901c78748$de2e9ba0$0200a8c0@satellite> <20070425110028.a2690d32.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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Bill Moran writes:

>  >     What is lost+found? I've got one on all my filesystems and
>  > over the past few days i've had things being deleted from
>  > there. Do i have a problem? 
>  
>  When fsck finds problems with the filesystem, it saves any data
>  that otherwise may have been lost to this directory.

	To elaborate a little:
	When fsck finds a file that no directory thinks belongs to
it. it stores that file in the "lost+found" directory of that
partition as "#<inode>".
	


			Robert huff



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