Locate with exclude?

[Anne Wilson]

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?

Anne


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