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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Recommendation to mkdir /lost+found on UNIX pc
Keywords: /lost+found, fsck, filesystem, crash
Message-ID: <3477@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 88 00:19:30 GMT
References: <214@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <214@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
[stuff about lost+found]

For reasons I won't go into, the lost+found dir needs directory slots.  So
do it like this:

#!/bin/sh

ROOT=/
mkdir $ROOT/lost+found
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a b c d e f g h i j k l; do
	cp /dev/null $ROOT/lost+found/$i
	rm $ROOT/lost+found/$i
done