Re: [Fedora] FC4 'find' command is finding wrong hard link count

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Tom Broadhurst wrote:

Has anyone determined what this problem is yet?
I don't want my system to blow up because of a /proc filesystem problem.
[root@...~]# find / -name dodo -print
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
/home/me/dodo
[root@...~]#

This isn't a problem with find, nor a problem with /proc. You shouldn't run find against the /proc file system. It changes with every process that's running and with every single command you type in. Hence find complaining that something's wrong. You'll notice that those files in /proc have a 0-byte file size, yet when you cat them, they contain data. That's the kernel at work for you. Don't run find against /proc.


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