Russ,
The slocate databse by default includes all the files from all the
partitions that were mounted the last time updatedb was run
You have to run (as root) updatedb to initialise this database and
whenever you want it to be made up to date.
It is set to run daily automatically at about 4 am, so those whose
machines are not powered up at that time will have to run it
manually.
Russ Johnson wrote:
>
> 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.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
