AOSP: tune2fs, resize2fs: make ramdisk binaries.

[tools/e2fsprogs.git] / misc / mklost+found.8.in

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@@ -10,24 +10,34 @@ second extended file system
 .B mklost+found
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B mklost+found
-is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory
-on a Linux second extended file system.
-.br
+is used to create a
+.I lost+found
+directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended
+file system.  There is normally a
+.I lost+found
+directory in the root directory of each filesystem.
+.PP
 .B mklost+found
-pre-allocates disk blocks to the directory to make it usable by
+pre-allocates disk blocks to the
+.I lost+found
+directory so that when
+.BR e2fsck (8)
+is being run to recover a filesystem, it does not need to allocate blocks in
+the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files.  This ensures that
 .B e2fsck
+will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery.
 .SH OPTIONS
 There are none.
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B mklost+found
-has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
-of the ext2 fs.
+has been written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>.  It is currently being
+maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.
 .SH BUGS
 There are none :-)
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 .B mklost+found
-is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous 
-ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
+is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
+http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR e2fsck (8),
 .BR mke2fs (8)