El Domingo, 18 de Febrero de 2007 11:01, Anne Wilson escribió: > 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? > > Anne I had the same problem some years ago when I had a linux router on my bedroom and locate made so many noise when running in the midle of the night. So I decided to change the hour, by default is at 4:00 AM (that's not the point, I know, but this is my email and my history :-) ) And the second decision I took was to optimize the directory i wanted updatedb to scan. If you take a look at /etc/updatedb.conf you will see: PRUNEFS = "auto afs iso9660 sfs udf" PRUNEPATHS = "/afs /media /net /sfs /tmp /udev /var/spool/cups /var/spool/squid /var/tmp" Just add the paths you want updatedb to do not index and then export PRUNEPATHS, run updatedb by hand and then try again with locate Hope this helps -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
