[SOLVED] Use locate (updatedb) to index NAS: How?

ajaxStardust · 01-12-2015, 03:24 AM

i am interested in including my NAS in the index of 'updatedb', for use with 'locate'.
in my experience, 'updatedb' simply ignores the /media/.* path altogether, but that is the path i am interested in including via 'updatedb'.

I have grown accustomed to the convenience of 'locate', as used via 'Cygwin', which allows for switches such as --network-path / --local-path (beg your pardon, if that's not the exact command syntax, but you get the idea: E.g. 'updatedb --network-path "//NetDevice/SubPath/" '), but such options do not seem to be available in the Linux Mint version of locate.

the System is Mint (Petra).
The NAS is mounted via fstab to /media/VolumeName/...
the network device is a Netgear "Stora". (not the best choice for NAS/ such hardware, but... what budget allowed).

:aside:
I see the "Disk Usage Analyzer" seems to be scanning the multiple drives/ partitions/ network storage (i.e. my devices, as shown in 'fstab'), for available/ used space.

pan64 · 01-12-2015, 03:43 AM

I would suggest you to read the man page of updatedb, especially there is an example about indexing a drive:

Code:

EXAMPLES
       To create a private mlocate database as an user other than root, run
              updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory
       Note that all users that can read db_file can get the complete list  of
       files in the subtree of source_directory.

syg00 · 01-12-2015, 04:43 AM

Of more interest is likely to be updatedb.conf (and its manpage). Will explain a great deal of what is included, and what isn't.

ajaxStardust · 01-14-2015, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Of more interest is likely to be updatedb.conf

that was easy. thank you! achieved my goal.