I recently connected two of my computers (The two that I use the most) by means of nfs, and am enjoying the ease of passing information from one to the other.
But, I attempted to use mlocate to find files that are only on the 'other' commputer and found that it doesn't work. I looked into as far as I know how, and found that while at least one source said that updatedb defaults to examining every directory (should include my chosen nsf directory, I think), but
there is a line in /etc/updatedb.conf that modifies that.
PRUNEFS="
NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs curlftpfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs"
I have Red-lettered th three items in PRUNEFS that seem to me to be the limiting factors, that might keep updatedb from cataloging the nsf directory.
Working from the laptop I (as root) removed those three items, and saved the resulting file. Then:
established a new index (so as not to mix that information with the information from the laptop), and ran a search for files that I know are in that nsf (eg. on the desktop computer).
But the nsf directory was still not included in the resulting index from updatedb.
Mlocate is such a quick and useful tool. I would dearly love to have it working with the nsf files if such a thing is possible. What can you tell me?
