mklost+found(8) — Linux manual page

MKLOST+FOUND(8)          System Manager's Manual          MKLOST+FOUND(8)

NAME         top

       mklost+found - create a lost+found directory on a mounted
       ext2/ext3/ext4 file system

SYNOPSIS         top

       mklost+found

DESCRIPTION         top

       mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the
       current working directory on an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system.  There
       is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each
       file system.

       mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the lost+found directory
       so that when e2fsck(8) 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 e2fsck will not
       have to allocate data blocks in the file system during recovery.

OPTIONS         top

       There are none.

AUTHOR         top

       mklost+found has been written by Remy Card <[email protected]>.
       It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o
       <[email protected]>.

BUGS         top

       There are none :-)

AVAILABILITY         top

       mklost+found is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available
       from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO         top

       e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the e2fsprogs (utilities for ext2/3/4
       filesystems) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at ⟨http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/⟩.  It is not known how to
       report bugs for this man page; if you know, please send a mail to
       [email protected].  This page was obtained from the project's
       upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git⟩ on
       2025-08-11.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2025-07-31.)  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
       or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
       mail to [email protected]

E2fsprogs version 1.47.3        July 2025                 MKLOST+FOUND(8)

HTML rendering created 2025-09-06 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH.