>I'm a little concerned about another aspect of fsck(8).
>I don't think I've ever seen it place files in lost+found (though II

Oh, *believe* me... it *does* place files in lost+found. ;-)

I found this out the hard way when I had a drive that was slowly
dying.  I would experience random disk rot.  Every time I would
reboot, I'd have a whole pile of files and/or directories that I had
to dig out of lost+found and put back where they belonged.  It got so
bad that I started putting files in each dir named the dir name, with
the text of the dir name in them, so if the whole dir got put into
lost+found, I could quickly figure out which one it was when I put it
back.

FYI...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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