Russ Johnson said:
> The reason locate is so fast is that it has a database. Unfortunately, I
> don't believe that database (by default anyway) includes the whole hard
> drive. That's why I use find. Locate seemed to miss files that I know were
> on the hard drive.
Thanks for making me take a look. I found the following in cron.daily, which
seems to control the process. I was glad to pull it up, because I had been
meaning to add /mnt to the list to be excluded:
/usr/bin/slocate -u -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/mnt"
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
