Re: Corrupted partitions

Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:37:17 -0500 (CDT)

I can confirm that e2fsck recreates the lost+found directory. It
happens to me occasionally since I have two partitions used for
creating/writing CDs. I usually end up deleting lost+found in the
process. However, on my system e2fsck only creates a "standard"
1024-size lost+found instead of the 12288-size directory.

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> Hang on! In an earlier email, you said that the reason that mke2fs
> preallocates 12 blocks to lost+found is because e2fsck has problems
> allocating blocks when fixing a corrupted file system, but now you
> state that no such problem exists !!! Which is it?
>
> > If you're easily amused, you can take a scratch partition, put
> > some data on it, use debugfs to clri the root directory, and
> > then run e2fsck and watch it recover from the damage. It will
> > recreate a root directory and a lost+found directory, and put
> > everything that used to be in the root directory into
> > lost+found. Aside from the names of the directories and files in
> > the root directory, no actual data will be lost.
>
> I don't have any spare scratch partitions to try anything like that
> on, and I wasn't willing to scramble any of my production systems just
> to find out the answer, hence my asking on here...

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