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

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

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:

$ ls -lh File.big
-rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big
$ sudo updatedb -v > foo
Password:
$ grep File.big foo
/home/stroller/File.big
$ locate File.big
$

If you don't have any DVD iso images on your system, you should be   
create a suitable file with `dd if=/dev/zero of=file.big bs=5M  
count=1k`. Update the slocate database & take a look for it, if you  
would be so kind.

I can't quite believe this and I'm kinda rubbing my eyes here. One  
machine behaving like this I can shrug it off as a quirk that I should  
really get around to fixin' sometime. I find it too incredible to  
imagine that I may have stumbled over some heretofore undiscovered bug  
in such a popular package.

Stroller.