Timeline for What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?
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| Jan 15, 2018 at 19:10 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 11, 2017 at 23:34 | comment | added | Bob Eager |
Sorry, but lost+found has been around practically forever on BSD systems. In fact, I just checked and it was definitely there on 4.3BSD, and I seem to recall it a lot earlier. And it is certainly on FreeBSD today.
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| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 | comment | added | FUZxxl |
Note that lost+found is specific to the Linux extended file system (ext2–4). Unices, e.g. FreeBSD typically don't have this directory on their file systems (UFS, ZFS).
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| Feb 12, 2016 at 18:17 | comment | added | Big McLargeHuge | @Gilles someone was kind enough to add it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck#Use | |
| Feb 26, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Adam Katz |
Note that only ext2 (and ext3 and ext4) use lost+found. If you want to hide it, either use a different filesystem or mount it elsewhere, keep everything in a subdirectory, and symlink the subdirectory to the "real" place you use the data from.
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| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:19 | answer | added | bhupal | timeline score: 44 | |
| May 28, 2012 at 1:41 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
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| Aug 9, 2011 at 3:20 | vote | accept | Wesley | ||
| S Aug 6, 2011 at 12:27 | history | suggested | VPeric | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Lost+Found -> lost+found in the title
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| Aug 6, 2011 at 0:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/99640590987313152 | ||
| Aug 5, 2011 at 21:25 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
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| Aug 5, 2011 at 21:23 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 704 | |
| Aug 5, 2011 at 21:21 | answer | added | Arcege | timeline score: 76 | |
| Aug 5, 2011 at 20:49 | history | asked | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |