find: File system loop detected problem in find and locate

[leoslists <leoslists at letterboxes dot org>]

Hi there

I'm trying to use locate and find. When I issue

    find / -xdev -name "*hallo*"

I get the warning 

    find: File system loop detected; `/c/cygwin' is part of the same file
system loop as `/'.

It is important to note, that I have mounted the C: drive at /c. After
reading some Cygwin posts I hoped that `-xdev' would solve this, but it
didn't...

The next thing I tried was pruning the Cygwin dir:

    find / -wholename /c/cygwin -prune -o -name "*hallo*"

But I still get the error message.

Any ideas how I can prevent the loop, but still do the find from root? (I
want to do the find from root, because inside locate, this determines the
paths written to the locate database.) 

Any help appreciated, Leo

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