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#1 2005-08-16 01:33:42

koyi
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find: hard link count is wrong for /:

I am facing this problem.

I just installed arch linux on one of my box and I have got this error message if I do find on the root:

find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /: 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.

I have searched through the forums and I found threads which discuss the same problem happened on /proc. But in my case it is /.

After checking the link count for /, I didn't find anything strange.

"ls /" shows 16 subdir in /.
"ls -ld /" shows that / has 18 hard links.

Is this a bug with find?

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#2 2005-08-16 02:05:57

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Re: find: hard link count is wrong for /:

/proc is a subdir of /
find is automatically recursive
could that be it?


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#3 2005-08-16 02:14:55

koyi
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Re: find: hard link count is wrong for /:

Thanks cactus.
You always reply fast don't you? 8)

I seem to have find the reason from the findutils bug report mailing list.
And this is a quote from the mail.

Although find made me aware of the issue, the message it prints could be more useful: it doesn't show an accurate location of where the incorrect count exists (instead, it seems to use the path that you gave to find on the command line),...

The original mail is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-f … 00005.html

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#4 2005-08-16 03:35:44

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Re: find: hard link count is wrong for /:

koyi wrote:

Thanks cactus.
You always reply fast don't you? 8)

heh. Sometimes I just notice things right away. Other times...
/me looks for that matching sock..


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