| Frank Cusack 2007-09-04, 7:23 am |
| On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:38:34 -0700 Debu <debasish4@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some doubt regarding the "/spare" and "/spare/lost+found"
> directory in unix. Currently i am using SVR4 and i couldn't able to
> figure out what these directories stands for???
I haven't heard of /spare but I also have never used a [true] SVR4
system. lost+found is the standard directory name for inode-based
filesystems where unreferenced files are placed by fsck. My guess,
based on the name, is that /spare is a local convention for this
system for ... wait for it ... spare disk space ... and is not a
standard unix directory. Also, the fact that there is a
/spare/lost+found indicates that /spare is probably a filesystem
mount point and not just a directory in the / filesystem, reinforcing
my guess that this is just a local convention.
Are you really using SVR4? That's pretty ancient.
> This Problem arrived because i want to remove the "world writable
> permission" from this directory so that an ordinary user couldn't able
> to write into it.
lost+found should be mode 0700. As to /spare I wouldn't know.
It is possible the /spare is NOT a filesystem mount point, and that
lost+found is therefore NOT the standard fsck directory, and therefore
changing lost+found to ore 0700 might break things. You can find out
by running 'mount'.
-frnak
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