On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. /findbadlink find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2>ERR grep -v '/proc\|/run' </badlinks >/badlinks-clean run in / to check system. # wc -l badlinks* 1324 badlinks 696 badlinks-clean Machine with clean install of Fedora 42 has 965 and 487. Is this normal? Is it something just to ignore? Is it something that should be fixed? If so what would be best method?I use the symlink program to find and delete dangling links. Something like this will tell you how many bad links you have: $ sudo su - ... # symlinks -r / | grep dangling Or you could pipe it to `wc -l` for a count of the dangling links. Once you see the list and approve of them, you can delete the dangling links with the `-d` option: # symlinks -r -d / Also see <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-old-symlinks>.
That is not a good suggestion. Most of them you don't want to delete. This has been discussed before on this list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
