Unix, Xenix and ODT General FAQ

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I want more space in my SCO Unix lost+found directory

By default, the SCO mkdev fs script creates 62 empty entries in lost+found. Linux does something similar, with mklost+found but apparently chooses the size based on some algorithm.

This can be important in the event of a crash: if lost+found is not big enough, fsck can't save the orphaned files.

(More modern file system fsck's CAN allocate lost+found space as needed)

If you'd like to make more, use a variant of the following script:

for a in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
  for b in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
  do
    > /lost+found/dummy$a$b
  done
done
rm -f /lost+found/*
 

The above will create 100 entries. Season to taste.

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