Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Stroller<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby
>>> locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not
>>> the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the database
>>> when I run updatedb manually.
>>
>> A big old bump from 6 months ago, could I ask kind members of the list to
>> try running locate to look for a big file to see if they can reproduce this,
>> please?
>>
>> I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger than
>> about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results:
>
> Works as expected for me on ~amd64. Found a 7.5G file just fine.
>

I'm using slocate-3.1-r2 by the way