Find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/1: this may be a bug

hi all,
when i 'find / -name abc' , it say:
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/1: 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.
my kernel is 2.6.25, filesytem is ext2/boot ext3/other
thank you!
Last edited by wonglaye (2008-05-30 14:34:21)

I'll highlight the important parts from that link for you:
Question wrote:I routinely use "find / -name ......", so how do I eliminate /proc from the search path?
Answer wrote:
I almost always use the "-xdev" option to prevent 'find' from descending
into file systems other than the ones I explcitly specified, e.g.,
find -xdev / /usr /var ...
It's pretty rare that I actually want to search my entire system, which
would include a news spool, a seldom used MS-Windows file system,
possibly a mounted CD or DVD, ..., and of course /proc.
why_no_proc wrote:The problem with the link count in /proc is that it changes every time a
process is created or terminates, so the number of directories that
'find' sees during processing might not agree with the link count that
it read at the start. I admit that doesn't seem terribly likely unless
the system is quite busy, but it can certainly happen.
Last edited by dyscoria (2008-05-31 11:11:19)

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