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Re: lost+found

To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: lost+found
From: Deti Fliegl <deti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:40:20 +0200
Cc: Thomas von Steiger <thomas.vonsteiger@xxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106161320550.27379-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 at 7:20pm, Thomas von Steiger wrote
> 
> > If i create a XFS Filesystem on Disk, has this Filesystem a lost+found
> > inside ?
> > I have a XFS Filesystem on a old Redhat 6.1, becose there is no lost+found.
> 
> There's no lost+found.  I'm assuming that's because of the journal and the
> fact that "lost" items are "found" in place.  They may be corrupt if they
> were being written, but they won't be lost.

A lost+found directory will be created automatically when using
xfs_repair. This utility corresponds to the well known fsck which checks
and repairs a filesystem. Under normal circumstances you never need to
run xfs_repair (unless something goes badly wrong).

Have a lot of fun with XFS...

Deti

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