Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:02:16 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Robert Bonomi mail.r-bonomi.com> writes: > > > ... > > The fsck_ffs manpage says that 'lost+found' is _created_ *when*needed*, > > in the root of a filesystem, if not already present. > > > > The presense of /mnt/lost+found is _not_ an erro

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread jb
Robert Bonomi mail.r-bonomi.com> writes: > ... > The fsck_ffs manpage says that 'lost+found' is _created_ *when*needed*, > in the root of a filesystem, if not already present. > > The presense of /mnt/lost+found is _not_ an error. just a surperfluous > file that ended up there 'somehow'. > ..

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
jb wrote: > > Hi, > > Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. > It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. > This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc > e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery). > > In FreeBSD 9, I found lost

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:58:09 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Hi, > > Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. > It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. Correct. > This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc > e.g. at boot time, d

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:58 AM, jb wrote: > Hi, > > Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. > It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. > This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad > hoc > e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery).

lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread jb
Hi, Each fs should have its own lost+found directory. It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there. This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery). In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt. This i