updatedb

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:16:47AM -0800, V Krish wrote:
> I am using FC2 and have mounted an external drive
> thus:
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> 
> How do I modify the /etc/updatedb.conf file if I want
> to  exclude the external drive from the daily slocate
> search done by slocate.cron? Do I add /dev/sda1 to
> PRUNEFS or /mnt/usb to PRUNEPATHS?
> 
> Thanks,
> Krish
> -------------
I am confused . If you want to exclude a directory path from the
running of updatedb the -e option seems to be what you want to use.
Where does slocate come in to it?
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