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- From: ables@hal.com (King Ables)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.152726.21925@hal.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:27:26 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.133855.14134@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
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- > If you delete the lost+found directory there are ways to get it back, but
- > arbitrarily removing it is not a very good idea.
-
- You complained about bad advice to novices, yet this statement is itself
- misleading. To clarify:
-
- If you delete your lost+found directory, there are ways to make another
- one. There are *not* ways to get THE ONE YOU HAD back (i.e. with saved
- files in it). (Yes, I know you can fsdb your filesystem or something
- equally baroque [but ONLY if no other changes have been made while it was
- mounted] but I'm talking about *normal* Unix tools to get things back).
-
- If you delete your lost+found directory and fsck had saved corrupted
- data there that you want, it's gone. You can make a *new* lost+found
- directory which the appropriate amount of available file slots so that
- fsck can use it again if it wants to, but you can't get *those* data files
- back.
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