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Comment by jcalvinowens

XFS does use /lost+found, it calls it the "orphanage directory" and xfs_repair reparents children of corrupt directories there.

Based on comments in the kernel source, it seems like the userspace fsck for JFS and F2FS will also sometimes create /lost+found. There might be more that do.

parent jcalvinowens 4 months ago

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