3b1 startup: I CAN'T BELIEVE at&t was really this stupid!

Gary S. Trujillo gst at gnosys.UUCP
Mon Jul 10 13:13:51 AEST 1989


I may be missing something, but it seems to me that if the command under
discussion:

   #find /lost+found -mtime +7 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1

had any real utility, it would be to clean *files* out of the /lost+found
directory.  As the command is written, it will actually delete the /lost+found
directory itself along with its contents if the contents of the directory have
not been modified within the past week.  If there is no /lost+found directory
when you run fsck as part of the reboot sequence, there is no place to put
files which have become unlinked.

Just an observation.

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Gary S. Trujillo			      {linus,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!gnosys!gst
Somerville, Massachusetts		     {icus,ima,stech,wjh12}!gnosys!gst



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