On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:30, rado wrote:
> > > also, it seems that no matter what I tried I cannot get find to stop
> > > looking in /proc lol
> >
> > One way is to use the -mount argument and make separate runs for
> > each filesystem. That also avoids the problem of wandering into
> > isos/dvd's/nfs mounts, etc.
>
> whoa...I run CentOS as generic and simply as possible. Only thing I am
> guilty of is bash shell lol. I don't even run nfs anywhere!
> ...my fstab:
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> /dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>
> oh my, Les!!! as I was editing the spacing in this fstab, something hit
> me! ...the /proc line and the /sys line could they be the culprits that
> have been giving me fits???
>
> ok...I'm too tired tonite...gonna stop right here...tomorrow nite first
> thing, I am gonna google around see if I can find some "proper syntax"
> for this -mount deal...I read the man...just bounced off me for now.
If you don't have any mounted filesystems that you want scanned
then you can't hurt anything. Just add -mount as an argument
to find after the directory (/) and on general principles you
should also add -print0 as the last argument to find and -0 as
an argument to xargs.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
