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Re: transfering to new HDD



On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:48:29AM -0600, Brad wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works.
> > 
> > man (8) mklost+found for more info.
> 
> Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes, i actually RTFS ;),
> all it does is mkdir /lost+found, create a bunch of files to reserve
> some space for directory entries so fsck doesn't have to increase the
> size so soon, and then delete all those files.

or you can just run fsck and it will complain and recreate the missing
lost+found directory.  

you could always run mke2fs on the device too that will surely fix the
missing lost+found issue :P

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