Guy said that you could just '/etc/unlink' lost+found. It is my experience (Unix v7m) that you should FIRST do an unlink on lost+found/. Otherwise fsck finds lost+found before it finds lost+found/* , re-links lost+found (into the new lost+found), and you still have a problem. Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack.