On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: > Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues. > > So, you're saying that > locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head > > returns nothing but > Yep! As does locate /usr
> locate /home | grep ^/home | head > > returns something? (/home being a stand-in for whatever your unsaid > "[user file] partition" is) > > Perhaps you should investigate how those two directories differ? > That was the original question - both are ffs, both are rw, the only difference between then that /home is nosuid, however that does not affect locate on 3.3, 4.9, or 5.0 (just tested). TFTR! Lee