If you were looking for mounts why not use this? cat /proc/mounts you would probably need to filter it some to get what you want as it contains every mount.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:47 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:08:16 +0000 > David Fleck <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Thursday, November 28, 2019 10:02 PM, John Jason Jordan > ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I tried updatedb as jjj and with sudo and it did nothing much. It > >> took about one second to complete. Clearly it is not updating the > >> database for all files on all partitions. > >> > >> I think I found one solution - find with the --prune option. I'm > >> trying to figure out the syntax to make it exclude the entire /media > >> folder (because that's where everything but / and /home are > >> mounted). I wish man pages would give examples of usage. > > > > > >What about > >find {all /-level dirs except /mnt} {other find options} > >? > >You could stick it into a tiny script or shell alias. > > After hours of trying to find an easy way to do what I wanted, I > finally succeeded with the following find command: > > sudo find / -name "*.mount" -print -o -path '/media' -prune > >~/find_mount_points.txt > > This command searches / for any file ending in .mount (you have to put > it in quotes in you use a wildcard), -o = or, and the folder to prune > must be in single quotes, and finally the result is sent to a text file > in my home folder. It took about ten seconds to execute. > > I neglected to say beforehand what I was trying to find. I am still > struggling to figure out how systemd decides what to mount and in what > order. Apparently such things are kept in a file with the > extension .mount, so that is what I was trying to find. Unfortunately, > while my command worked without going into anything mounted in /media, > it returned 146 files that end in .mount, of which 58 were located in > folders containing 'systemd.' > > Find is a very powerful search tool, with options for just about > anything. However, that makes it also incomprehensible. But the > education was worth the time spent. > > And now that I have a find command that excludes /media I have saved it > for use in the future when I need to find something that I know is not > on any of my attached external drives. I only wish there was a way to > save commands permanently in the GUI terminal - it would be faster and > more convenient than having to open a text file of saved commands. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
