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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:42:24
Message-Id: 6AF8CEA7-7B7D-4B6A-818F-7DD7410013D3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
1 I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly
2 whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same
3 directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be
4 read by the database when I run updatedb manually.
5
6 Is there anyone who can possibly explain this, please? Am I
7 overlooking some intentional slocate behaviour, or should I delete the
8 slocate database file & see if rebuilding it makes a difference? That
9 seems like a very Windows thing to do, but I guess it's possible the
10 db is damaged.
11
12 Stroller.
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17 $ locate -i KNOPPIX
18 /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
19 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6
20 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6
21 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix
22 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/Manifest
23 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6.ebuild
24 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/ChangeLog
25 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/metadata.xml
26 $ locate KNOPPIX
27 /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
28 $ ls -l /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.*
29 -rwxr--r-- 1 stroller users 730177536 Mar 8 2007 /mnt/space/Archive/
30 Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
31 -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 4446816256 Oct 24 05:31 /mnt/space/Archive/
32 Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso
33 $ sudo /usr/bin/updatedb -v | grep -i knoppix
34 /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
35 /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN.iso
36 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6
37 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6
38 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix
39 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/Manifest
40 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/ddcxinfo-knoppix-0.6.ebuild
41 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/ChangeLog
42 /usr/portage/sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix/metadata.xml
43 $ locate KNOPPIX
44 /mnt/space/Archive/Linux/CDs/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
45 $

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>