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trsix
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 Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: index your harddrive for faster searching [SOLVED] |
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I hope that someone can help me out here.
1. I want to index my harddrive so i can search for things faster
- i heard that you could do this so that when youre searching for files on your harddrive you are just searching a database instead of actually searching the whose drive for the file relying on the speed of the drive.
2. I want to set up a cron job to have this file updated on a regular basis.
Any takers ? 
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Genone
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| Do you talk about slocate or something to index file contents as well? |
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--D_S--
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:36 am Post subject: |
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easy just emerge slocate:
To update slocate database use:
and add to cron
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#min hour day month day-week job
0 0 * * 1 updatedb -e /mnt,/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/portage
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-e is for excluting dirs in the database
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trsix
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| Genone wrote: | | Do you talk about slocate or something to index file contents as well? |
Slocate is what i am looking for, Perfect !!! |
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trsix
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| --D_S-- wrote: | easy just emerge slocate:
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nice, i suspected there was a package for this, thanks |
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