mlocate databases?

[William John Murray]

>William Murray wrote:

>>>  Mlocate ate my laptop in April!
>>> 
>>> ls -ltr /var/lib/mlocate
>>> total 3022120
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    844066816 Apr 14 17:46 mlocate.db.rBAm9f
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    142090240 Apr 15 17:11 mlocate.db.5WFHLF
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    367599616 Apr 17 01:34 mlocate.db.hwNRnj
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    142086144 Apr 17 06:17 mlocate.db.8Dsp3V
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    368197632 Apr 20 11:07 mlocate.db.RuRzJP
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    368197632 Apr 21 14:10 mlocate.db.JEe9MT
>>> -rw------- 1 root root    844668928 Apr 23 18:12 mlocate.db.aJxliy
>>> -rw-r----- 1 root slocate  14646298 Jun 21 10:09 mlocate.db
>>> 
>>>   Since these all date from a week in April I assume I can delete
>>> all the old db files. Is that true? It will save 2.9Gb!!
>  
>
>
>I guess you can delete the files; and even if the db becomes corrupted,
>you can delete everything and have it rebuilt from scratch next time
>updatedb runs.
>
>Or you could just move the files in another dir, verify if mlocate
>works and put them back in place if necessary.
>
>I would personally take the easy path: delete them; they're very likely
>temp files which weren't deleted for some reasons.
>
>Best regards.
 >-- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it Yes.. I deleted all the 
backup-like files, and all seems to work well Cheers, Bill