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 2.10 Filesystems
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 A "filesystem" is a section of a disk, either on the local host or
 mounted from a remote host over a network.  Searching network
 filesystems can be slow, so it is common to make 'find' avoid them.
 
    There are two ways to avoid searching certain filesystems.  One way
 is to tell 'find' to only search one filesystem:
 
  -- Option: -xautofs
      Don't descend directories on autofs filesystems.
 
  -- Option: -xdev
  -- Option: -mount
      Don't descend directories on other filesystems.  These options are
      synonyms.
 
    The other way is to check the type of filesystem each file is on, and
 not descend directories that are on undesirable filesystem types:
 
  -- Test: -fstype type
      True if the 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:
           ext2 ext3 proc sysfs 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.  The '%D' directive shows the device number.
      Print File Information.  '-fstype' is usually used with
      '-prune' to avoid searching remote filesystems (
      Directories).
 

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