From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:25:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:25:33 -0500 Received: from h24-65-192-120.cg.shawcable.net ([24.65.192.120]:59638 "EHLO webber.adilger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:25:18 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200101261924.f0QJOWH15609@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: Renaming lost+found In-Reply-To: <20010126141350.Q6979@capsi.com> from Rob Kaper at "Jan 26, 2001 02:13:50 pm" To: Rob Kaper Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:24:32 -0700 (MST) CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/