I think this should remain a daily cron job. If you can't trust locate to be at least halfway up-to-date you could just use find instead, or you'd be always forced to run updatedb before using locate. This would mitigate locate's benefits.
OTOH I don't believe that reducing reads in any way would increase a hard disk's life expectancy nor significantly decrease it's power consumption. Hard disks age, and after a few years (about the time there's warranty on the disk) the failure rate will drastically increase - that's just the way it is. And many things that you may believe which should prolong it's life are actually statistically insignificant. There's a Google white paper on this that explains it. -- updatedb should be weekly, not daily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
