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updatedb.conf & locate searching only on system partion
Hello,
i tried to tell locate to search only on the system partion.
So I modified File: /etc/updatedb.conf to this
I executed updatedb but it still prints files from the data partion. What can i try else?
i tried to tell locate to search only on the system partion.
So I modified File: /etc/updatedb.conf to this
# This file sets environment variables which are used by updatedb
# filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs afs proc smbfs autofs auto iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs"
export PRUNEFS
# paths which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /media /www /backup /c /USB /c/home /c/media /c/backup /c/www"
export PRUNEPATHS
# netpaths which are added
NETPATHS=""
export NETPATHS
I executed updatedb but it still prints files from the data partion. What can i try else?
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- Ohh, answering a really old question: I also updated the /etc/updatedb.conf file only to find it's not used. Looking inside /usr/bin/updatedb (thats actually a shell script) there is no reference to updatedb.conf. Either it's meant to be started by someone else, or a "source /etc/updatedb.conf" is missing. Manually I ran it like this:
> source /etc/updatedb.conf
> updatedb
and can now use locate (omitting a number of huge backup directories in my updatedb.conf that would never finish find/sort otherwise). Happy :-)
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