/proc and disk usage, strange messages
 

When I do:
I can see this:
The question is why du is accessing a file or directory that does not exists?? I've seen in the web that several people have the same warnings, but I couldn't find a solution

The /proc system is a window into the kernel. Running du on /proc doesn't make any more sense than running fsck on the graphic card. Garbage in: garbage out.

Well I don't run du /proc normally, but du / and the proc is there anyway. And I don't want these garbages in the output

So, you think It is a problem with the kernel?

How to think of it?? In Linux and Unix, one concept is that "everything is a file". That works to a point--ie there are some file-related commands that work with /proc (e.g. "more"). But the "virtual files" like proc are really just structures in memory, so they don't use the disk. Thus du is not going to work.

But du /proc works fine in my Debian distro.

I stand corrected...but it is not telling you the disk utilization---ie all that stuff is not on your disk.
The "files" that don't exist---can you see them by browsing thru the /proc tree?

No, I don't. And those numbers: .../proc/1005/task... inreases by one at every du execution

do ps -e and see if the process IDs you are seeing are actually the ones for du. Perhaps du can't "look at itself"

Yes but I can't catch du while running, Cannot send it to the background. I have not X yet

EDIT:
Let's assumend it is it's ID, how to get rid of this warnings? When I run du / I don't want to see this garbages

du / | grep -v /proc/
OR
du / 2>/dev/null

the first one just bypasses all the output containing "/proc/", but still gives the total for /proc
the second one send all errors to /dev/null

Never mind... :)

OR.....
du --exclude=*/proc*

What never mind?

OK, thanks I will try this

Please ignore my other post - I removed the original content because it didn't add anything new.