On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:41:55 +0200 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 01:49:41PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > > > Right mlocate is installed updatedb takes no time it is instant it > > fails to read a thing .. it attempts to reads the NAS drive that > > i do NOT want read thats it nothing else > > > > now can we have some sensible replies please .. > > > > Pete . > > > try to ignore the bad vibes here and beat someone up IRL, it's more > satisfying. > > man updatedb.conf mentions PRUNEPATH. did you set that > in /etc/updatedb.conf? can you paste your config, while we're at it? > > cheers! > mar77i Hi .. Yes some people i would really like to meet face to face but still .. Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows # directories to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEPATHS="/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music /home/pete/nas1" # filesystems to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEFS="afs auto autofs binfmt_misc cifs coda configfs cramfs debugfs devpts devtmpfs ftpfs iso9660 mqueue ncpfs nfs nfs4 proc ramfs securityfs shfs smbfs sshfs sysfs tmpfs udf usbfs vboxsf" yet i get zero file finds for any file name that i know is definately on the system in a location that IS searchable Thanks Pete -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 3 06:46:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux