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Would it not be a good idea to have some kind of task, preferably set to run on boot or login which would do something of the ilk:
if(folder_exists('/Lost and Found'))
{
display_dialog('Get the hell out of here, she's gonna blow')
}
BTW. This script is in no particular language. I'm sure I could write an Applescript to do this but I'm too busy at the moment so some kind person may want to post one here.
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So, I said .. well, I can't actually remember exactly what I said. But it was one of the most enormously cruel and frighteningly witty put downs ever.
It's not necessarily that the filesystem was corrupted -- rather that an omission
was found in the directory information (sometimes due to force-quit applications,
power outages, etc.) and the system saved those inodes for you
(in lost+found, since the original directory location was no longer known
for sure). Having items saved in lost+found doesn't necessarily mean
that your disk is bad. There are other components in the system (both
software and hardware, e.g. power supplies, disk controller etc.) that
are potential culprits. Everwind mac os. Magnet massacre mac os. Having journalling active in the mount options
does tend to reduce the possibility of orphaned inodes; Larry.
Would it not be a good idea to have some kind of task, preferably set to run on boot or login which would do something of the ilk:
if(folder_exists('/Lost and Found'))
{
display_dialog('Get the hell out of here, she's gonna blow')
}
BTW. This script is in no particular language. I'm sure I could write an Applescript to do this but I'm too busy at the moment so some kind person may want to post one here.
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So, I said .. well, I can't actually remember exactly what I said. But it was one of the most enormously cruel and frighteningly witty put downs ever.
It's not necessarily that the filesystem was corrupted -- rather that an omission
was found in the directory information (sometimes due to force-quit applications,
power outages, etc.) and the system saved those inodes for you
(in lost+found, since the original directory location was no longer known
for sure). Having items saved in lost+found doesn't necessarily mean
that your disk is bad. There are other components in the system (both
software and hardware, e.g. power supplies, disk controller etc.) that
are potential culprits. Everwind mac os. Magnet massacre mac os. Having journalling active in the mount options
does tend to reduce the possibility of orphaned inodes; Larry.
uhm..
mostly true..but please do a 'ls -la' first and check the modification dates before acting to early.
I have a Lost+Found in my root, but hey..its from november 2003 when I installed panther and had to force shutdown. (yes.I'm still working on my first panther installation :)
It could be an indication that your HD is failing..but it could also be that you have scr*wed up your system.
Lost And Found Prologue Mac Os X
Square runner mac os. Having files in the lost+found directory does not mean you have a corrupted hard disk. It means that the *filesystem* was corrupted. I've seen really bad filesystem corruption caused by sharing NFS and having a client hang. The hard disk was and still is fine.
Just because Mac OS X has journalling does not mean you won't have 'lost' files. These will end up in the lost+found directory. DiskWarrior and the like will also find these files.
Sure, a physically damaged drive will get filesystem corruption but a corrupt filesystem does not mean you have a damaged drive.
Lost And Found Prologue Mac Os X
I recently used iPartition to remove a third partition and resize the second to consume that free space. Upon reboot I had the 'lost+found' folder at the root. It was about 2.4Gb, some of the files appear to be parts of the iWeb templates.
I was unable to repair permissions, in addition to many other application issues, from internal or external OS.
I copied the 'com.apple.pkg.BaseSystem.bom' from the folder '/Library/Receipts/' on a similar system that was functioning properly. It seems to have done the trick. Disk Utility can now repair permissions and verify disks again.
13' 2.4GHz Poly MacBook, Late 2006, 10.5.8