Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm having increasingly annoying issues with SuSE 7.2. I have two
> other linux partitions on the same box. Whn I use the
> "locate <stuff>" command, it proceeds to list all files with <stuff>,
> but also those files ON AN UNMOUNTED PARTITION that have <stuff>. So
> somewhere, there's some list of files left over from when the other
> partition was mounted.
locate uses a database that, typically, is updated daily, hence it
reports on files dwelling on file systems not currently mounted. For
"current" information, use find.
Kurt
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