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
       http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

       e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8)



E2fsprogs version 1.40.3         December 2007                 MKLOST+FOUND(8)