On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:09:32AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote: > > > > Other file systems have taken the root == 2 behavior and used inode 1 for > > special things. > > IIRC inode 0 => file containing the inode table > inode 1 => file containing the allocation bitmap > inode 2 => swap space > (or maybe in a slightly different order) One often is reserved for a "file" containing marked bad blocks, to keep them out of circulation. > When you find the directory entries for the those two files, > you don't want to delete them to 'recover' the space! These usually aren't linked from a directory, and fsck knows not to put them in lost+found. -- Dan.
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