"find" problem

[Cameron Simpson]

On 06Jan2012 12:43, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
| On my F13 machine, 
| 
|       find / \! -fstype ext4 -prune -o -print
| 
| prints every file that is in an ext4 filesystem mounted on /, and prunes
| those in any other type of fs.
| 
| On my F15 the same command prints nothing.  Why might that be?

Is / an ext4 fs? If not, the find will terminate immediately.
I would run the find with a -print before the -prune and withjout th
trailing print - see what the find is pruning.

Cheers,
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