Updatedb indexes the files on the filesystem and is automatically run at certain intervals to refresh the database. The locate command depends on updatedb for its fast search functionality.
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Can I disable updatedb.mlocate?
On ubuntu server here and I'm trying to unpack 300M image files from a compressed file format using Java.
My unpack rate is 0.5Mbytes/sec, abysmal (34 days to unpack 1.5TB at this rate).
I'm trying ...
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Browse through file databases created by updatedb (locate)?
Having indexed external drives using updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory I wonder whether there is already a (GUI) browser like Nautilus to navigate offline through the indexed files.
Note: ...
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How do I run Updatedb everyday?
How do I edit update.conf at /etc/update.conf to run everyday? This would enable me to use locate with a very recent database.
I read this:
default settig,updatedb,it has been in /etc/cron.daily ...
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indexing a removable file system with updatedb
I'd appreciate some help with the following:
I have an encfs filesystem ("bankenc") mounted thus
/media/bankenc
and locate currently can't be used to find things on it. I believe this is because ...
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Managing cron.*
I see that Ubuntu uses /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} for cron jobs. I also see that some things, like updatedb from mlocate, put their jobs there:
$ dpkg -L mlocate|grep y/m
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updatedb & locate command problem - Files from external hard drive are no longer indexed after rebooting
Files from my external hard drive are no longer indexed after rebooting. I have to remount and then run
# updatedb
after each reboot. The problem is updatedb takes a few minutes for my external ...
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locate, updatedb & cron
On a new EC2 Lucid AMI, I've tried:
$ locate include_prompt.sh
And got:
locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory
I've created the locate database using ...
