How to turn on the find's -noleadf option?
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Thu Sep 29 15:30:51 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:24 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:43 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > When I perform command "find / -name abc.txt -print" message "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." displayed.
> > >
> > > Would someone tell me how to turn it on ?
> >
> > er.. like this?
> > find / -name abc.txt -print -noleaf ?
> >
> > try
> > $man find
> >
> >
> >
>
> I tried but no help in man page. I didn't need to do this when I am
> in fedora Core 3. Is the problem is caused by the yum upgrade from FC3
> to FC4 ?
-noleaf
Do not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer
subdirectories than their hard link count. This option is
needed when searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix
directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS filesystems or AFS
volume mount points. Each directory on a normal Unix filesystem
has at least 2 hard links: its name and its â entry. Additionally, its
subdirectories (if any) each have a â entry linked to that
directory. When find is examining a directory, after it has statted
2 fewer subdirectories than the directoryâs link count, it knows that
the rest of the entries in the directory are non-directories (â
files in the directory tree). If only the filesâ names need to be
examined, there is no need to stat them; this gives a significant
increase in search speed.
>
>
> Wong Kwok Hon
>
--
Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 23:30:50 up 5 days, 4:17, 8 users, load average: 0.07, 0.28,
0.36
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list