Re: Weird ext2fs immortal directory bug

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 [e-mail] wrote:
[SNIPPED...]
> 
> Here's the problem(s) (or at least, the symptoms):
> 
> sentry21@Petra:1:/lost+found$ ls -l
> total 0
> lr----S---    1 52       12337           0 Nov  1  2022 #3147 ->
> 

Did you try..
# rm -r lost+found
# mklost+found

Without knowing how to use the ext2fs tools, and not wanting to
risk more damage, I tried this and it worked when I had such a
crash-induced problem.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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