Hi,

I just found out something strange. Try it out for yourselves. Here goes. Search for any directories under /boot:

# find /boot/ -type d /boot/ /boot/grub /boot/lost+found

So far so good. Now execute a detailed listing on the results:

# find /boot/ -type d -exec ls -l {} ; total 6203 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68663 sep 3 2009 config-2.6.18-164.el5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 avr 6 10:40 grub -rw------- 1 root root 3228842 avr 6 10:30 initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 avr 6 10:19 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80032 mar 12 2009 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107405 sep 3 2009 symvers-2.6.18-164.el5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954947 sep 3 2009 System.map-2.6.18-164.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1855924 sep 3 2009 vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 total 257 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 avr 6 10:40 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7584 avr 6 10:40 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 avr 6 10:40 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 avr 6 10:40 ffs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 655 avr 6 10:40 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 avr 6 10:40 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 avr 6 10:40 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 avr 6 10:40 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 avr 6 10:40 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 avr 6 10:40 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55808 mar 12 2009 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 avr 6 10:40 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104988 avr 6 10:40 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7072 avr 6 10:40 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 avr 6 10:40 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8904 avr 6 10:40 xfs_stage1_5 total 0

Why does 'find' suddenly list everything... and not just the directories?

I'm puzzled.

Niki