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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: help with missing lost+found!
Message-ID: <44059@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 12:59:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 12:59:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 01:22:43 EDT
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: fix your fsck

Actually, what should happen is that whoever you got your system from
should FIX their fsck. The 4.3 BSD fsck will create a lost+found if
neceessary (and do some other really nice things). If you have a 4.2 BSD
based file system it should be trivial to port the 4.3bsd fsck. If you
don't, you can still steal most of the code.

There is no excuse for still requiring a lost+found directory.

(For a good time do a clri 2 on your 4.3 BSD root filesystem. Then be
highly impressed when fsck says "ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED. ALLOCATE?" For
a really good time, do the clri on a friends terminal who doesn't know
that the 4.3bsd fsck can recover that. The facial expression can be 
priceless)

---rick