Find Warning..

[Temlakos]

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:39:30PM +0200, Jos? Javier Cuadrado wrote:
>>
>>>Hello i just did a fresh install of FC4 and when i do a find i get the following warning. Any tips to fix it? 
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>find / -name <whatever> 
>>>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.
>>>-- 
>>
>>Running find on /proc is bound to cause problems. /proc is not a real
>>filesystem it is simulated filesystem created by the kernel to hold
>>various characteristics of your system.
> 
> 
> This does seem to be a harmless bug in the /proc filesystem.
> 
> When I first saw this I dismissed it as the fast moving nature of 
> the /proc filesystem.  Find can often toss out errors because what it found and
> what it 'sees'  (stat etc.) might not match or even still be a moment later.
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> /proc
> /proc/bluetooth
> 
> But Looking a little bit closer...
> # ls -lid /proc
> 1 dr-xr-xr-x  140 root root 0 Jun 17 22:07 /proc
> # ls -ali /proc | wc
>     164    1636   11843
> 
> So this is why find is tellig us that something is wrong.
> There are 24 some 'things' that do not have an inode linked to
> /proc itself.
> 
> It is a pseudo filesystem intended to communicate to the user
> various kernel and process info.   It should have all the
> correctness of any filesystem so I suspect a real bug.
> 
> As best I can tell this is harmless.
> 
> 

Are we talking about searching for files?

Because if we are, /my/ problem is that invoking "Search for Files..." 
in the "Places" menu very often doesn't find the file that I know is on 
the system somewhere.

Temlakos