I deleted lost+found folder on ext3 partition

slacky · 05-01-2008, 08:23 AM

I have an ext3 partition mounted as /var/files and shared via Samba. I used Robocopy to mirror another server's share to this partition - as part of the mirroring it deleted the "lost+found" folder on that partition. Is this going to cause me any problems down the road - should I try to recreate?

Thanks,
slacky

unSpawn · 05-01-2008, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by slacky

should I try to recreate?

It's part of the filesystem standard, not sure if fsck would recreate it itself, so you probably should. You can recreate it NP, it's just a directoryname.

slacky · 05-01-2008, 08:57 AM

Okay, thanks, I will then.

slacky

bwayson · 05-01-2008, 10:03 AM

It ought to be recreated -- it is where fsck will put the parts of lost files that it finds. Open a terminal window, become root, then navigate to the root of the mounted partition that needs a lost+found directory, run "mklost+found", then exit. If root is disabled then (I am guessing), then open a terminal window, navigate to the root of the partition that needs a lost+found directory, run "sudo mklost+found", then exit. That ought to do it.

unSpawn · 05-01-2008, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by bwayson

run "mklost+found"

Good one. Didn't know that command. 'man mklost+found' shows just creating the dir is not a good solution.