> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nifty Hat Mitch > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:03 PM > To: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Find Warning.. > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:39:30PM +0200, Jos? Javier > Cuadrado wrote: > > > Hello i just did a fresh install of FC4 and when i do a > find i get the following warning. Any tips to fix it? > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > find / -name <whatever> > > > 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. > > > -- > > Running find on /proc is bound to cause problems. /proc is > not a real > > filesystem it is simulated filesystem created by the kernel to hold > > various characteristics of your system. > > This does seem to be a harmless bug in the /proc filesystem. > > When I first saw this I dismissed it as the fast moving nature of > the /proc filesystem. Find can often toss out errors because > what it found and > what it 'sees' (stat etc.) might not match or even still be > a moment later. > > > > 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. > /proc > /proc/bluetooth > > But Looking a little bit closer... > # ls -lid /proc > 1 dr-xr-xr-x 140 root root 0 Jun 17 22:07 /proc > # ls -ali /proc | wc > 164 1636 11843 > > So this is why find is tellig us that something is wrong. > There are 24 some 'things' that do not have an inode linked to > /proc itself. > > It is a pseudo filesystem intended to communicate to the user > various kernel and process info. It should have all the > correctness of any filesystem so I suspect a real bug. > > As best I can tell this is harmless. > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > Found me a new place to hang my hat :-) > Found me a cable too. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Tom Excellent detective work. This may be harmless, but, as you mention, it's still probably a bug. At the least your explanation will allow me to sleep better. Thanks again for confirming the problem. Tom
