Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbterra!ted
From: ted@cbterra.ATT.COM (Ted Aseltine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Recommendation to mkdir /lost+f
Message-ID: <3806@cbterra.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 15:21:53 GMT
References: <178@shlepper.ATT.COM> <144800017@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ted@cbterra.UUCP (Ted Aseltine)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
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The discussions so far on creating an lost+found directory
have given solutions which are a bit too complex.  My favorite
method is to find a directory which has a large number of files
(e.g., /bin or /usr/bin) in the filesystem on which you want
your lost+found directory, then link the files from the big
directory to the lost+found.  E.g., if you are have a filesystem
mounted it on /mnt, and the big directory is in /mnt/bin, 
 do the following:

	cd /mnt
	mkdir lost+found
	ln bin/* lost+found
	rm lost+found/*

It is faster, and saves wear and tear on the disk.