Levi Bard wrote:
>I can see your point, but it DOES generally take some time to search through 20 GB of files. However, you should only need to updatedb when you're looking for a file you just installed (since the last time cron ran). My solution to this has been to look carefully at the files I'm installing, including looking at the contents of .debs and .rpms and using `make -n install` (which prints the commands that would be run by `make install` without executing them).
>
Great suggestion! Another one, just in, is using the -U option of the
updatedb command to limit the directories being updated.
Thanks.
Vernon
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