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>.
Jeff
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