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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] slocate suggestion
From:       Mattias Dahlberg <p00mda () du ! se>
Date:       2002-02-06 8:21:33
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On 5 Feb 2002, Frederik Himpe wrote:

> Could the slocate cronscript in /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron be changed
> to exclude directories in /mnt:
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -e /mnt
>
> This will stop many complaints from people asking why there hard drive
> is trashing and slowing down the system just after they boot to Mandrake.

I second this. I know for a fact that the heavy duty disk access caused by
slocate at boot disappoints a lot of users who decide to give Linux a try.

Sure, slocating the entire hard drive is probably useful, but perhaps more
users would find it useful if the disk thrashing stopped?

Regards,
Mattias


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