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