> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:35:35 +0100 > From: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> > To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc > > Le 06/12/2013 10:56, Richard Melville a écrit : > > > > Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard Melville a ?crit : > > > Does anybody know what causes the following:- > > > > > > du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or > > directory > > > du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or > > directory > > > du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4': No such file or directory > > > du: cannot access '/proc/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory > > > > > > > > What were you doing? Building some package? What is the command which > > generated that output? > > > > Regards > > Pierre > > > > > > I was just checking disk space with du -sh / as root. That was the > > only output apart from the requested disk space. > > > > Richard > > > > > /proc/602 is a system directory associated to the process number 602. I > guess du first finds 602 inside proc when listing the directory /proc, > then tries to open it. If 602 is a transcient process (that is it runs > for a short time), it may happen that it has disappeared before the > second time it is accessed. > > You may add --exclude=/proc to the command linen but I think it is harmless. >
- and/or use the '-x' flag if it's really just the '/' partition that you want info for. If you're wanting info on the full filesys tree, then perhaps something like 'df [-a] -hP --total'; as for 'du', there are various command-line options to adjust the format to suit what you want. akh -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
