> > > Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:35:35 +0100 > > From: Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> > > To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc > > > > Le 06/12/2013 10:56, Richard Melville a ?crit : > > > > > > 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 >
Thanks for the help, and to Pierre for the (as always) knowledgeable and detailed explanation. What I love about this list is that there's no end to the learning. Richard
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