Ah thanks, I missed that reply in the vast stream.
Attached the output of
updatedb.plocate -U /mnt/x -o /run/shm/updatedb.plocate.db 2>&1|sed -r '/getdents64/
{:loop; s/(d_name="\**)[^"*]/\1*/};t loop'|tee updatedb.strace
Best Regards
MP
execve("/usr/sbin/updatedb.plocate", ["updatedb.plocate", "-U", "/mnt/x", "-o",
"/run/shm/updatedb.plocate.db"], ["SHELL=/bin/bash", "LESS=-SRiMJj.2~ --shift
5", "HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups", "TMUX=/tmp//tmux-0/default,7300,0",
"HISTSIZE=100", "LESS_TERMCAP_se=\33[23m\33[m\17",
"LESS_TERMCAP_so=\33[1m\33[7m\33[32m\33[4"..., "LESS_TERMCAP_ZZ=\33[m\17",
"EDITOR=vim", "LESS_TERMCAP_ZV=", "LESS_TERMCAP_ZW=", "LESS_TERMCAP_ZN=",
"LESS_TERMCAP_ZO=", "PWD=/dev/shm", "LOGNAME=root", "RANGER_LEVEL=1",
"XAUTHORITY=/home/empee584/.Xauth"..., "HOME=/root", "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8",
"PROMPT_COMMAND=: ; _bash_history"..., "ESCDELAY=25",
"SUMO_HOME=/usr/share/sumo", "ANDROID_HOME=/usr/lib/android-sd"...,
"LESS_TERMCAP_mh=\33[2m\33[45m", "TERM=screen-256color",
"LESS_TERMCAP_mb=\33[1m\33[35m", "LESS_TERMCAP_me=\33[m\17",
"LESS_TERMCAP_md=\33[1m\33[36m", "LESS_TERMCAP_mr=\33[7m", "USER=root",
"TMUX_PANE=%1663", "DISPLAY=:0.0", "SHLVL=1", "LESS_TERMCAP_ue=\33[m\17",
"LESS_TERMCAP_us=\33[1m\33[35m", "SHELL_AUTOSTART=1", "SYSTEMD_LESS=-SRiMJj.2~
--shift "..., "CACA_DRIVER=ncurses", "XDG_DATA_DIRS=/root/.local/share"...,
"PATH=/root/.local/bin:/usr/local"..., "HISTIGNORE=fg:bg:ls:curdirremove"...,
"MAIL=/var/mail/root", "GOPATH=/usr/local/go", "_=/usr/bin/strace"]) = 0
brk(NULL) = 0x56167090d000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(0xfe, 0x1), st_ino=2760474, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=656, st_size=332395,
st_atime=1615308075 /* 2021-03-09T17:41:15.136322436+0100 */,
st_atime_nsec=136322436, st_mtime=1615308075 /*
2021-03-09T17:41:15.136322436+0100 */, st_mtime_nsec=136322436,
st_ctime=1615308075 /* 2021-03-09T17:41:15.140322452+0100 */,
st_ctime_nsec=140322452}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 332395, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f969e2ef000
close(3)= 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3,
"\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\240\305\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) =
832
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(0xfe, 0x1), st_ino=4988491, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=1744,
st_size=890800, st_atime=1610829920 /* 2021-01-16T21:45:20+0100 */,
st_atime_nsec=0, st_mtime=1608920915 /* 2020-12-25T19:28:35+0100 */,
st_mtime_nsec=0, st_ctime=1610829996 /* 2021-01-16T21:46:36.826083797+0100 */,
st_ctime_nsec=826083797}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7f969e2ed000
mmap(NULL, 892984, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f969e212000
mprotect(0x7f969e21d000, 843776, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f969e21d000, 765952, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xb000) = 0x7f969e21d000
mmap(0x7f969e2d8000, 73728, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0xc6000) = 0x7f969e2d8000
mmap(0x7f969e2eb000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd8000) = 0x7f969e2eb000
close(3)= 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3,
"\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\240\240\t\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) =
832
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(0xfe, 0x1), st_ino=4981494, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=3656,
st_size=1870824, st_atime=1610371213 /* 2021-01-11T14:20:13+0100 */,
st_atime_nsec=0, st_mtime=1610278539 /* 2021-01-10T12:35:39+0100 */,
st_mtime_nsec=0, st_ctime=1610371216 /* 2021-01-11T14:20:16.515680637+0100 */,
st_ctime_nsec=515680637}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1886208, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f969e045000
mmap(0x7f969e0db000, 901120, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x96000) = 0x7f969e0db000
mmap(0x7f969e1b7000, 303104, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0x172000) = 0x7f969e1b7000
mmap(0x7f969e201000, 57344, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1bb000) = 0x7f969e201000
mmap(0x7f969e20f000, 10240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f969e20f000
close(3)= 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\0\362\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_dev=makedev(0xfe, 0x1), st_ino=5043488, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=2584,
st_size=1321344, st_atime=1610829705 /* 2021-01-16T21:41:45+0100 */,
st_atime_nsec=0, st_mtime=1609825662 /*