The find tool is failing for a missing fs driver

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Jan 18 15:29:04 UTC 2006


Either ignore the message or don't let find search in /proc.  Files in 
/proc are not "normal" so find is complaining about it.

J.Markoll wrote:
> Hello,
> Since a few weeks when I happen to invoke 'find' the shell returns an 
> awfull! message.
> 
> Awfull for me cause I don't know what he is talking about  :(
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~$ LANG=C sudo find / -name 'linux-source*'
> 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.
> joyce at mamachine:~$ pon
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> This message begins to #$£%*!!?&@!!
> Is someone good enough on the subject to tell me what I could look at, 
> what to check and so ? thanks gratefully for help.
> Joyce Markoll.
> 
> 





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