On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/15/25 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over > >> things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about > >> 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. > >> > >> /findbadlink > >> > >> find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2>ERR > >> grep -v '/proc\|/run' </badlinks >/badlinks-clean > >> > >> run in / to check system. > >> > >> # wc -l badlinks* > >> 1324 badlinks > >> 696 badlinks-clean > >> > >> Machine with clean install of Fedora 42 has 965 and 487. > >> > >> Is this normal? > >> Is it something just to ignore? > >> Is it something that should be fixed? > >> If so what would be best method? > > > > I use the symlink program to find and delete dangling links. Something > > like this will tell you how many bad links you have: > > > > $ sudo su - > > ... > > # symlinks -r / | grep dangling > > > > Or you could pipe it to `wc -l` for a count of the dangling links. > > > > Once you see the list and approve of them, you can delete the dangling > > links with the `-d` option: > > > > # symlinks -r -d / > > > > Also see > > <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-old-symlinks>. > > That is not a good suggestion. Most of them you don't want to delete. > This has been discussed before on this list.
I found a previous discussion at "What Does the Symlinks Command do?" (December 2024), <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7OY4BTS2SJLTQ6O6CVPUPJRSZRYZRVIS/>. But it does not say why using symlinks is a bad (not a good) choice. Perhaps you can point us to the thread? Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
