Odd locate behavior

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

MR ZenWiz wrote:

>Problem solved - pilot error.

Ah, good.

>I have a number of directories on my machine I want accessible
>through 'links,' but hard links don't work and symlinks aren't a
>good fit for some of them. So I use bind mounts to link them
>together.

Interesting. I had never heard of those until now.

>Bad idea in this case - locate explicitly ignores them because of
>PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS setting to "yes." Duh.
>
>I turned the /home/Music directory into a symlink, and voila.

Or you could have left them as is and turned the yes to a no in the
event that there's an advantage to the bind mount over the symlink.

>I knew this was the case, but I forgot.

We all do that sometimes.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.