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.TH MKLOST+FOUND 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
-mklost+found \- create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux
-second extended file system
+mklost+found \- create a lost+found directory on a mounted
+ext2/ext3/ext4 file system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mklost+found
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mklost+found
is used to create a
.I lost+found
-directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended
+directory in the current working directory on an ext2/ext3/ext4
file system. There is normally a
.I lost+found
-directory in the root directory of each filesystem.
+directory in the root directory of each file system.
.PP
.B mklost+found
pre-allocates disk blocks to the
.I lost+found
directory so that when
.BR e2fsck (8)
-is being run to recover a filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in
-the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files. This ensures that
+is being run to recover a file system, it does not need to allocate blocks in
+the file system to store a large number of unlinked files. This ensures that
.B e2fsck
-will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery.
+will not have to allocate data blocks in the file system during recovery.
.SH OPTIONS
There are none.
.SH AUTHOR
.B mklost+found
-has been written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>.
+has been written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is currently being
+maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.
.SH BUGS
There are none :-)
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B mklost+found
-is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from anonymous
+is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR e2fsck (8),
projects / thirdparty / e2fsprogs.git / blobdiff