I had looked at the e2fsprogs source once, and this is what I recall:
As far as the kernel is concerned, /lost+found is just another
directory. It's a preallocated space where e2fsck can put links to
inodes which have, for whatever reason, become orphans. If e2fsck
doesn't find a /lost+found in the root directory of a partition, then e2fsck
can usually create a new one as it fixes the partition.
Thus, any lost+found which isn't in the root directory will be ignored
and can be deleted.
--Joe
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From:        Ben Phillips [SMTP:">pynk@cc.gatech.edu]
Sent:        Tuesday, February 15, 2000 4:12 PM
To:        ">ale@ale.org
Subject:        [ale] lost+found
I just found a lost+found directory in a place that is not the top level
directory for a partition. I've given up trying to figure out how it got
there -- how do I figure out whether the kernel is considering it to be a
"real" lost+found directory? I mean, if someone inadvertently typed
'mklost+found' as root in some random directory, does that move the
effective lost+found or just create another one in addition to the first?
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