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From: Linda Walsh <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: loop message warning in find for apparent non-looped files
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I was doing a find of my root NTFS dir along the lines of :
find / -xdev -size +1G

It outputs an error:
find: Filesystem loop detected; 
`/Home/law/Documents/Microsoft/win/registry2/reg
tweaks/KXP_Tweaks/www.gabrieleponti.com/images' is part of the same 
filesystem
loop as 
`/Home/law/Documents/Microsoft/win/registry2/regtweaks/KXP_Tweaks/www.gab
rieleponti.com/images'.

This is the only error message with the command finishing to completion.
The filesystem has over 400,000 files, and almost 27,000 directories.

Why would this one file come up with what seems to be an obvious error 
message? 

It appears find is complaining that the same file is part of the same 
loop --
which it is, but that shouldn't be an error since they are they same file in
the same path.

Am I missing something obvious?

Linda



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