Problem configuring a new 1TB drive on Ubuntu 20.04.3 using fstab

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:04:21 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:46:17PM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:21:16 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >It's used by fsck.  You should leave it alone.
>> 
>> Too bad, I have deleted it already since such a dir is nowhere else to be seen.
>
>It only exists on certain filesystem types.  Its purpose is to have some
>preallocated disk blocks so that e2fsck won't have to allocate blocks
>when it's trying to recover files in case of some kind of problem.  Thus
>it's not something you need often, but it should exist for reliability.
>
>Use "cd /mnt/data && sudo mklost+found" to recreate it.
>

Thanks, I did so and it recreated the directory.


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Bo Berglund
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