[xubuntu-users] Updatedb and locate does not work

Lee Gold leegold at operamail.com
Wed Feb 8 22:46:42 UTC 2012


Yes, I tried the option to encrypt my /home/... when I installed Xubuntu
so I had to change the updatedb.conf in two places. Now locate works OK!

$ df -T
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5     ext4    20230784   4424612  14778488  24% /
udev      devtmpfs     1530864         4   1530860   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs      616416       936    615480   1% /run
none         tmpfs        5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock
none         tmpfs     1541036       128   1540908   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda6     ext2     5166468     83736   4820284   2% /boot
/home/yy123top/.Private
          ecryptfs    20230784   4424612  14778488  24% /home/yy123top
Thanks.
  

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> On 2012-02-07 04:42, Lee Gold wrote:
> [...]
> > PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media /home/.ecryptfs"
> [...]
> > I was searching for
> > many names in my /home dir as a quick test which did not work, and now I
> > see /home/... is "pruned". That must be my problem. 
> 
> It's not /home but /home/.ecryptfs that's pruned!
> What is the output of df -T ?
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