Re: Renaming lost+found

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>]

Rob Kaper writes:
> Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the
> time because 99.9% of my time it's just useless and I really think
> .lost+found (a hidden file) would make much more sense for daily use. I
> assume this would require some ext2 changes as well as a patch to e2fsck
> etc. (with backwards compatibility of course)

You could also just delete it, but then you run into problems when e2fsck
is run on a broken filesystem.  Use ext3 instead.  The lost+found dir is
in many (most?) Unix filesystems, for use when things go bad.

You _could_ change it to be a hidden file, but then you would have to
remember where it was after e2fsck moves half of your files into it
after a crash.  It probably wouldn't be too much work to change e2fsck.
You also need to change mke2fs and mklost+found as well.

Cheers, Andreas
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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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