[ale] ON_THE_BLINK-> find (fwd)

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Sun Jun 20 18:39:15 EDT 1999


It might help if I ever updated my address books ;-).

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:36:48 -0600 (MDT)
 From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
To: ale at gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [ale] ON_THE_BLINK-> find

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, David Hamm wrote:

> What happens if you "touch /tmp/lost+found" and then run the command? 
> 

You should never make lost+found like that.  It needs to be a directory, and
it needs to have an appropriate number of inodes reserved for its use should
you ever be unlucky enough to need it ;-).  mklost+found takes care of all
the issues for you....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu






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