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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] slocate suggestion
From:       Warly <warly () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-02-06 9:54:43
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Mattias Dahlberg <p00mda@du.se> writes:

> 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?

hum slocate is anacroned and should only start 15 min after boot or
alike, isn't it ?

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Warly

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