On Sunday 18 February 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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. > Thanks to you and Manuel for replying. After doing this I presume that there is some service that I need to re-start, in order to cause the config file to be read? Anne
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