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- From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problem with find in MSDOS file system
- Keywords: DOS FS, linux, find
- Message-ID: <3473@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:45:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.155134.24843@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Aug28.155134.24843@midway.uchicago.edu> ace3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In general, when find reaches the 3rd level of subdirectory nesting in a
- >DOS file system, it will only list the files in the first such
- >sub-directory.
- >
- >I'd like to help figure out what's going on, but I'm not sure if the
- >problem is in find, or the fs/msdos stuff.
-
-
- Try:
-
- find -noleaf
-
- I ran across this with the CDROM filesystem. Find assumes that the i_links
- field is accurate, and uses this to decide how many subdirectories it needs
- to examine. If the i_links field is not accurate, then find screws up.
- I do not know if this is the problem with the msdos fs, but it is fairly
- easy to try.
-
- -Eric
- --
- Eric Youngdale
- eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
-