locate not finding files
 

Chris,

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Chris Lemire wrote:

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> Why does locate not find files in my other partition that other
> applications can find. I haven't tried Beagle yet.

see /etc/updatedb.conf for pruning



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locate not finding files
 

Christopher Lemire wrote:
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> Why does locate not find files in my other partition that other
> applications can find. I haven't tried Beagle yet.
>
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ sudo updatedb
> [sudo] password for chris:
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ locate -i prorat
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ find /media/sdb2/ -iname '*prorat*'
> /media/sdb2/ProRat_v1.9
> /media/sdb2/ProRat_v1.9/ProRat.exe
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$
>
Whenever you run locate (actually slocate), it parses /etc/updatedb.conf
( see 'man locate'). Take a look at this file, specifically the
"PRUNEPATHS" variable. Mine lists /media and thus, I assume, means it
will not be indexed.
-Corey

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locate not finding files
 

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 23:00 -0600, Christopher Lemire wrote:
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> Why does locate not find files in my other partition that other
> applications can find. I haven't tried Beagle yet.
>
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ sudo updatedb
> [sudo] password for chris:
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ locate -i prorat
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$ find /media/sdb2/ -iname
> '*prorat*'
> /media/sdb2/ProRat_v1.9
> /media/sdb2/ProRat_v1.9/ProRat.exe
> chris@ubuntu:~/sauerbraten experiement$
>
/media is explicitly ignored in the default configuration (it is listed
in the PRUNEPATHS variable in /etc/updatedb.conf, and find will not
search directories listed in that variable).


/media is mostly used for CD/DVD/floppy devices that are not permanently
mounted. You may be best advised to move the mount point for sdb2 to
somewhere other than /media (/disks/sdb2 for instance)


Tim


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