I have a machine that had a hardware failure, and as a result the /var partition got pretty trashed. I am in the process of building a newer machine to replace this one, but I need to get this one to hobble along for a week or 2.
Mostly I think I have done what I need to get things back working, but in checking things over, I discovered that the /var/lost+found directory is missing. I thought I remembered (perhaps from earlier *NIX'es) that there was a shell script to create this directory, which, if memory serves, should have lot's of empty slots in it's directory structure. Or is this all old knowledge. Do modern filesystems not need a special way of creating this directory? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
