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MKLOST+FOUND(8) 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 filesys- tem. 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 <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>. BUGS There are none :-) AVAILABILITY mklost+found is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from <a href="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net" title="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net</a>. SEE ALSO e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8) E2fsprogs version 1.40.4 December 2007 MKLOST+FOUND(8)