mklost+found (8)

Leading comments

Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o.  All Rights Reserved.
This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/mklost+found.8".)

NAME

mklost+found - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux second extended file system

SYNOPSIS

mklost+found

DESCRIPTION

mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system. There is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each filesystem.

mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found directory so that when e2fsck(8) is being run to recover a filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files. This ensures that e2fsck will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery.

OPTIONS

There are none.

AUTHOR

mklost+found has been written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.

BUGS

There are none :-)

AVAILABILITY

mklost+found is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8)