On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote:
> Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues.
>
> So, you're saying that
> locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head
>
> returns nothing but
>
Yep! As does locate /usr
> locate /home | grep ^/home | head
>
> returns something? (/home being a stand-in for whatever your unsaid
> "[user file] partition" is)
>
> Perhaps you should investigate how those two directories differ?
>
That was the original question - both are ffs, both are rw, the only
difference between then that /home is nosuid, however that does not
affect locate on 3.3, 4.9, or 5.0 (just tested).
TFTR!
Lee