On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, L. V. Lammert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
If you've established that the two directories have no differences in mode, etc, then I guess you'll have to go with the "walk through things step by step" path then. Philip Guenther
