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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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If you don't have any DVD iso images on your system, you should be |
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create a suitable file with `dd if=/dev/zero of=file.big bs=5M |
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count=1k`. Update the slocate database & take a look for it, if you |
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would be so kind. |
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I can't quite believe this and I'm kinda rubbing my eyes here. One |
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machine behaving like this I can shrug it off as a quirk that I should |
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really get around to fixin' sometime. I find it too incredible to |
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imagine that I may have stumbled over some heretofore undiscovered bug |
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in such a popular package. |
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Stroller. |
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