mklost+found

Synopsis

mklost+found

Description

mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system.  There is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each filesystem.

mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found directory so that when e2fsck(8) is being run to recover a filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files.  This ensures that e2fsck will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery.

Options

There are none.

Author

mklost+found has been written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>.  It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.

Bugs

There are none :-)

Availability

mklost+found is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

See Also

e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8)

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