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Linux Server Hacks: Piece Together Data From the Lost+Found

Overview The fsck utility, created by Ted Kowalski and others at Bell Labs for ancient versions of Unix, removed much of the black magic from checking and correcting the consistency of Unix filesystems. No one wept many tears for the passing of fsck's predecessors, icheck and ncheck, since fsck is far smarter and encapsulates a lot of knowledge about filesystem organization and repair. One of the coolest things that fsck brought to Unix filesystems was the notion of the lost+found directory at the root of a Unix filesystem.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2005	Downloads	6
Format	Book chapters
Topics	UNIX, Linux Server OS

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