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Why can't fsck find my lost+found directory?
Because you don't have one. It's possible someone deleted it, but the more likely cause is that you didn't use mkdev fs to create it.
Linux has "mklost+found".
One of the things that fsck looks for is inodes which are marked as used (i.e. not in the free list) but do not have a directory entry pointing to them. fsck will ask if you wish to reconnect these; if you say yes, it will try to create a file entry in the /lost+found directory on that filesystem. If there is no free space in /lost+found, it is not safe to expand it because the rest of the filesystem may still be corrupt; for information on this one, see below. If there is not /lost+found directory, fsck will tell you that it can't reconnect the file and the data in that file will be lost.
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