Another fdisk partition for 386/ix.
jrh
jrh at mustang.dell.com
Mon Nov 20 06:34:58 AEST 1989
The /lost+found directory is probably there when you originally install, the
problem is the shell script /etc/cleanup has a nasty bug in it. They have
a line which reads:
find /lost+found -mtime 14 -exec rm -rf {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
This is loaded in crontab to be executed every Sunday morning by default.
The problem is, if /lost+found has not had it's modification time changed
in 14 days, the entire subdirectory is removed.
to fix the problem, just do the following:
# mkdir /lost+found
# cd /lost+found
# cp /usr/bin/* /lost+found
# rm *
# cd /
# ls -al
The /lost+found directory should be there, with room for a relatively large
number of files. The script that creates the file makes it about 1360,
anything there or above should be fine.
Next, modify /etc/cleanup to fix the problem permanently. The easiest is
to insert a line with:
touch /lost+found
before the 'find' command above, should clear it up...
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