Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Steven Anderson wrote:
I wonder wether there is any projects under way to
give Linux the same type of searching and indexing
features that are going to be availbable with Windows
Longhorn and Mac OS 10.4? I understand that there is
You mean that capability we've had for the last (I don't know how many)
years? :)
a db...somthing command that will index the hard drive
now which i ran across some time ago. Unfortunately it
did not seem to work when I issued the command
although it ran somthing all night long. Anyone know
what command this is since I cant seem to find it
again. Also anyone know of any indexing projects?
updatedb is used to index the HD and locate is used to search the DB.
If updatedb did not work as you expect you may wish to strace it to see
what it is doing.
Rob
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