On 11/26/2012 10:03 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > updatedb and locate with it mounted do not find anything? Often > times it would be convenient to do but locate seems only to want to > work on the internal drives [for me]. Using the find command was a good answer. But, just as FYI, the reason updatedb followed by locate did produce any results can be found in /etc/updatedb.conf . [egreshko@meimei ~]$ cat /etc/updatedb.conf PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS = "yes" PRUNEFS = "9p afs anon_inodefs auto autofs bdev binfmt_misc cgroup cifs coda configfs cpuset debugfs devpts ecryptfs exofs fuse fuse.sshfs fusectl gfs gfs2 hugetlbfs inotifyfs iso9660 jffs2 lustre mqueue ncpfs nfs nfs4 nfsd pipefs proc ramfs rootfs rpc_pipefs securityfs selinuxfs sfs sockfs sysfs tmpfs ubifs udf usbfs" PRUNENAMES = ".git .hg .svn" PRUNEPATHS = "/afs /media /mnt /net /sfs /tmp /udev /var/cache/ccache /var/lib/yum/yumdb /var/spool/cups /var/spool/squid /var/tmp" Note that /run is file system type tmpfs which appears in PRUNEFS -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
