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On Friday 07 August 2009 05:25:28 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: |
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> > I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly |
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> > whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same |
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> > directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to |
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> > be read by the database when I run updatedb manually. |
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> A big old bump from 6 months ago, could I ask kind members of the list |
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> to try running locate to look for a big file to see if they can |
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> reproduce this, please? |
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> I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger |
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> than about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results: |
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> $ ls -lh File.big |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big |
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> $ sudo updatedb -v > foo |
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> Password: |
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> $ grep File.big foo |
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> /home/stroller/File.big |
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> $ locate File.big |
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> $ |
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Works here: |
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# ls -alh File.Big |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0G Aug 7 10:01 File.Big |
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# updatedb -v > foo |
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# grep File.Big foo |
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/var/temp/File.Big |
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# locate File.Big |
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/var/temp/File.Big |
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What are the contents of your /etc/updatedb.conf? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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