Re: lost+found

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:22:15PM -0400, 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.

xfsrepair seems to create lost+found on the fly when it needs it, i.e.
when orphaned inodes are found. On a 100% full file system with no place
to create it you're probably out of luck.

-Andi