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Operating Systems AIX Lost+Found is not available Post 77094 by Perderabo on Monday 4th of July 2005 08:50:23 AM
Old 07-04-2005
You won't know until fsck attempts to connect some files there. And even if that works, it may have been dangerous. The issue is available space in the directory. If there is room for another {name, inode} pair, there is no problem. mklost+found expands the directory and since directories do not shrink, it stays expanded. Most versions of fsck discard the file if there is no room.

I heard a rumor that some recent bsd fsck versions will expand the lost+found directory if needed. If that's true, I hope that it builds a list of these unconnected inodes and waits until after the free list has been rebuilt. Allocating a block from a garbled free list is not wise. And I assume it must give up if the free list is empty.
 

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virtual-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				    virtual-filesystems(7)

NAME
virtual-filesystems - event signalling that virtual filesystems have been mounted SYNOPSIS
virtual-filesystems [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The virtual-filesystems event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all virtual filesystems listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. This event is typically used by services that must be started in order to mount other filesystems. When this event occurs, common filesys- tems such as /usr may not be mounted. For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once virtual filesystems are mounted might use: start on virtual-filesystems SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7) mountall 2009-12-21 virtual-filesystems(7)
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