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SubjectRe: Corrupted partitions
Hi,

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:30:10 +0100 (GMT), Riley Williams
<rhw@MemAlpha.CX> said:

>> Yes, it will detect and fix a corrupted lost+found directory.
>> E2fsck can even create a lost+found directory if it is missing
>> (or too badly damaged to recover), and it can allocate new
>> blocks to lost+found.

> Hang on! In an earlier email, you said that the reason that mke2fs
> preallocates 12 blocks to lost+found is because e2fsck has problems
> allocating blocks when fixing a corrupted file system, but now you
> state that no such problem exists !!! Which is it?

e2fsck has no problem in principle, but the disk may be full and there's
not much it can do in that case. Preallocating lost+found just
eliminates one extra possible error situation.

--Stephen

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