fsck Recovery From Crashes

[Ed Gould]

>This brings to mind a utility I've been meaning to write.  It
>would run daily and make an index by inode number of each
>filesystem to make it easier to figure out what was what in a
>lost+found directory after a crash.

>Before I reinvent another wheel, has anyone already done this?

The ncheck program - if it exists in your version of UNIX - does
exactly this.  It was a standard part of the system through at
least V7 and is still part of BSD.

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