[ale] lost+found

[Randal Jarrett]

There is a little more needed than just creating a directory and I don't
think that a link will work.

make the directory, then run a shell script to create several hundred 
(this is determined by how many files you have on the partition) files,
then remove them.  This leaves the structure for fsck to write recovered
files into.

It doesn't take up much space but without it fsck cannot recover files.



On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 10:43 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > What happens if I delete lost+found on an ext3 partition?  Is it really
> > necessary to have?
> >
> > Why?  It's a stable partition, rarely changing.  This partition is
> > exposed via ftp and http, and as such some browsers and other tools try
> > to "crawl" a level deeper for caching reasons.  The lost+found directory
> > is owned solely by root, so ftpd and apache users don't have access...
> > but my logs fill up with errors about their denied attempts.  
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> >   
> I can't say for sure what would happen, except I know fsck expects a
> lost+found. Perhaps you can create a directory on that partition and
> move everything (except lost+found) to that directory and point the
> apache directory to it instead? It doesn't answer your question but it
> will eliminate the errors.
> 
> Jim.
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