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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: help with missing lost+found!
Message-ID: <657@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 20:38:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 20:38:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 18:45:14 EDT
References: <180@LOGICON.LOGICON.UUCP> <2836@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <2836@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>> Using mkdir() doesn't cut it...
>
>Why not?  Doing:
>
>	cd <root of your file system>
>	mkdir lost+found
>	cd lost+found
>	for i in `series 1 100`; do touch $i; done
>	rm *
>

I vaguely know what the lost+found directory does for a disk partition. Can
someone explain the reason for needing 100 empty files in the directory?
What happens if you just do mkdir <partition>/lost+found and leave it at that?

	-- Niels.