updatedb suspiciously fast

[Knapp]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:46 AM, P Kapat <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 !!
> --
> Regards
> PK
> --------------------------------------
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I don't know this but it seems faster here too. Perhaps they improved
the indexer to not index stuff that was done before but only the new
stuff?

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