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From: swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Another fdisk partition for 386/ix.
Message-ID: <24172@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Nov 89 07:27:12 GMT
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Mark@zok.UUCP writes:
>[lotsa stuff deleted!]
>The only item that still has me puzzled is the lost+found directory, it
>was not created.  Anyone know how/when this directory is normally created?
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Mark W. Snitily                 Consulting Services:
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  In the SCO implementation, the lost+found directory is created in the mkdev
script for file systems.  It uses a nested for loop to generate some large
number of files, and then deletes them.  I probably shouldn't post the source..
.
they might get mad.  :-)

Steve Watt
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