On 08/13/2008 12:16 AM, Zach Uram wrote:
I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see:
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may
be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's
-noleaf option. Earli er results may have failed to include
directories that should have been searched .
What is going on and how can I fix this?
Zach
Never use the find command to search /proc; that is a special virtual
filesystem used to configure your system. If programs touch the wrong
things in /proc, it could create serious problems for your computer.
The best way to use "find" is to create a database of all files on your
system, and "updatedb" does that. The wisely-written script in
/etc/cron.daily/find gets settings from /etc/updatedb.conf, and those
settings disable looking into "proc" filesystems.
If you must use "find" directly, be sure to exclude /proc and /sys.
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