Tony,
if you su in and do a updatedb it rebuilds the database.
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.
> For example, I did a "locate libc" and I get (just a few from a very
> long list). . . . .
>
> .
> .
> /lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
> /lib/libcrypt.so.1
> /media/sda4/lib/gnulibc1
> /media/sda4/lib/gnulibc1/libc.so.5/
> .
> .
> The first two listings are from the mounted partition. The directory
> /media is where I mount my other filesystems. The partition sda4 (SCSI
> drive "a") is NOT mounted. The directory /media/sda4 is empty. Does
> anyone have any idea how this is happening?
> Thanks!
>
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