Why do I get 'du: cannot access ‘/proc/PID/task/PID/fd/*’: No such file or directory' error?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Getting error while running du command on root filesystem:
# du -sh /
du: cannot access `./proc/22791/task/22791/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/22791/task/22791/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/22791/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/22791/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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