Updatedb - what is it for?

[DJ_Max]

Gábor Iglói Wrote: 
> Hi!
> 
> My machine sometimes starts to work furiously on the hard drive. So
> I'm curious why. I issued a "top" command and found that the updatedb
> process is working at these times. I haven't meet this thing in
> another distro (maybe it's there too but I didn't noticed it) - so I
> would like to ask: what it is and what it is for? I tried man and
> Google but still not clear what's good in it.
> 
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It's a feature for slocate and/orf locate.

So you can search your hard drive for file & directories. Every distro
has it.

You can run updatedb yourself, it'll then update the database with list
of stored files and such.


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DJ_Max