On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:44:26 -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???
>
> 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.
>
> Can anybody please tell me which kind of utilities are wrighting into
> this directory???
>
> Thanks
>
/lost+found is where fsck places orphan files (files whose names have
been lost). /spare is probably a mount point. Try the command "mount".
Ordinarily, you use the chmod command to change the permissions of a
directory, unless that directory is in a filesystem that does not
recognize Unix permissions (fat or ntfs); but such filesystems don't
usually have a lost+found directory.


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