From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZG5J-00014Q-7r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:25:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98FDDE0627; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 03:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A91E0627 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 03:25:35 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246834800"; d="scan'208";a="123065685" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 07 Aug 2009 04:25:34 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A054F137D4B for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:25:32 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <617BA82A-0E5E-4489-A4E5-1475B9CC258E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <6AF8CEA7-7B7D-4B6A-818F-7DD7410013D3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored? Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:25:28 +0100 References: <6AF8CEA7-7B7D-4B6A-818F-7DD7410013D3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: feb5b55d-c2aa-40d4-8708-d9992b0eeaf2 X-Archives-Hash: 6f4f23f2478bba4d6f4f45371839d945 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.