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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:19:23
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908070819q609ccdb7ld4f635afdcae87da@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? by Stroller
1 On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Stroller<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote:
3 >>
4 >> I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby
5 >> locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not
6 >> the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the database
7 >> when I run updatedb manually.
8 >
9 > A big old bump from 6 months ago, could I ask kind members of the list to
10 > try running locate to look for a big file to see if they can reproduce this,
11 > please?
12 >
13 > I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger than
14 > about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results:
15
16 Works as expected for me on ~amd64. Found a 7.5G file just fine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>