MKLOST+FOUND(8)

NAME
mklost+found - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux second extended file system

SYNOPSIS
mklost+found

DESCRIPTION
mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system. There is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each filesystem.

mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found directory so that when e2fsck(8) is being run to recover a filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files. This ensures that e2fsck will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery.

OPTIONS
There are none.

AUTHOR
mklost+found has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer of the ext2 fs.

BUGS
There are none :-)

AVAILABILITY
mklost+found is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.

SEE ALSO
e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8)