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Old 04-28-2012
find command exclude nfs mounts
Gentleman and Ladies,
I am having some difficulty in regards to the find utility. I am trying to not traverse nfs mounts when searching for files or directories.

This command does not seem to work. It still returns directories that live on nfs shares. The man page says:

Code:
       -fstype type
              File  is on a filesystem of type type.  The valid filesystem types vary among different versions of Unix; an incomplete list of filesystem types that are accepted on
              some version of Unix or another is: ufs, 4.2, 4.3, nfs, tmp, mfs, S51K, S52K.  You can use -printf with the %F directive to see the types of your filesystems.

I figured that I could use ! not the NFS filesystem. Not working for me.

Code:
[root@kickstart ~]# find / ! -fstype nfs -type d -name freetds

This still shows me directories that live on the nfs shares.

jaysunn
# 2  
Old 04-28-2012
What OS is this? The uname -a command does what we need to see.
# 3  
Old 04-28-2012
Thanks Jim,
Code:
[root@kickstart usr]# uname -a
Linux kickstart.domain.local 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# 4  
Old 04-30-2012
You can confine find to a single mountpoint with the -xdev switch.
# 5  
Old 04-30-2012
Try
Code:
find / -type d -name freetds ! -fstype nfs

If you want to find a directory named freetds on everything but nfs.

In your find statment your are trying the find everything but a directory named freetds on nfs filesystem.

Hope that helps

Regards
Peasant.

---------- Post updated at 10:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:17 AM ----------

Try
Code:
find / -type d -name freetds ! -fstype nfs

If you want to find a directory named freetds on everything but nfs.

In your find statment your are trying the find everything except a directory named freetds on nfs filesystem.

Hope that helps

Regards
Peasant.
# 6  
Old 04-30-2012
@Peasant
Quote:
In your find statment your are trying the find everything but a directory named freetds on nfs filesystem
Not true. The ! (not) operator only applies to the next argument.

@jaysunn
Rather than guess whether the fstype is seen as "nfs", what is the fstype for the filesystem(s) which you do wish to search?
Personally I'd still use the -xdev switch and search one filesystem at time.
# 7  
Old 05-01-2012
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@methyl,
Thanks for the advice. I let find look on the ext3 filesystem instead of not trying to search the nfs filesystem.

Thanks for the responses.

Jaysunn
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