Hi. I am trying to run find to look for any files belonging to user gid 501. I run the command. It takes ages and eventually starts checking my floppy drive. I have checked in /etc/group and user 501 exists. Any advice? The whole script is below.

[root@spc1-seve2-5-0-cust252 root]# cd /
[root@spc1-seve2-5-0-cust252 /]# find / -gid 501
find: . changed during execution of find
[root@spc1-seve2-5-0-cust252 /]#

"Hi. I am trying to run find to look for any files belonging to user gid 501. I run the command. It takes ages and eventually starts checking my floppy drive. I have checked in /etc/group and user 501 exists. Any advice? The whole script is below."

You are checking for group id 501 and I think that you intend to check for user id 501. So change find / -gid 501 to
find / -uid 501

Also, do you expect to find any of these files anywhere other than in /home? If not then you can save a lot of time with:
find /home -uid 501

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Thats fixed it thanks.