On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > I generally use locate to find a file, but I have /mnt/FC4root > and /mnt/FC4/home, and dozens of 'finds' are reported that are not relevant. > I'd like to use locate, telling it to ignore/mnt/FC4*, but nothing in the man > pages tells me that this is possible. > > Does anyone have a solution to searching while excluding large areas like > this? Check /etc/updatedb.conf You probably will want to customize on of the PRUNE* variables. Ralf
