Locate with exclude?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 18 February 2007, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> El Domingo, 18 de Febrero de 2007 11:32, Anne Wilson escribió:
> > On Sunday 18 February 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > I generally use locate to find a file, but I have /mnt/FC4root
> > > > and /mnt/FC4/home, and dozens of 'finds' are reported that are not
> > > > relevant. I'd like to use locate, telling it to ignore/mnt/FC4*, but
> > > > nothing in the man pages tells me that this is possible.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a solution to searching while excluding large areas
> > > > like this?
> > >
> > > Check /etc/updatedb.conf
> > >
> > > You probably will want to customize on of the PRUNE* variables.
> >
> > Thanks to you and Manuel for replying.  After doing this I presume that
> > there is some service that I need to re-start, in order to cause the
> > config file to be read?
>
> Just run updatedb manually
> All the best.

Thanks Manuel, that seems to have fixed it.  It will save a lot of 
eye-strain :-)

Anne
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