File System Loop detected

[wclark]

Hi there,

Today came in to hosed CentOS 6 system. Suspect Plesk auto-update, since nothing else changed. /var is full.

When I try to find the big file I get:
[root@impress-dev named]# pwd
/var/named
[root@imp named]# find . -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
find: File system loop detected; `./chroot/var/named' is part of the same file system loop as `.'.

[root@impress-dev named]# uname -a
Linux impress-dev.com 2.6.32.43-6.art.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 14 14:54:31 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



I don't know what created the /var/named/chroot directory. I can't delete it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Bill

 

[abdi]

Do

ls -ldi /var/named/chroot/var/named/ /var/named


and see if the inode numbers are the same (they shouldn't be). If they are then you need to remove the /var/named/chroot/var/named/ hard link and recreate it as a directory.