updatedb suspiciously fast

[P Kapat]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de> wrote:
> I noticed after moving from debian to hardy that updatedb is surprisingly
> fast, speaking of a manner of seconds rather than a minute or two.
>
> How does that work?

AFAIK, updatedb does not index the $HOME files, so what I do is this:
Run a cronjob with

/usr/bin/updatedb -l 0 -U /home/$USER -o /home/$USER/.mlocate.db

where,
alias mlocate="locate -d ~/.mlocate.db"

Sorry, I guess I did not answer your question !!
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PK
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