Re: I am impressed with Debian!
> "locate" command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why
> the disk runs for so long. :)
> > > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> > > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
It's probably worth mentioning at this point that running updatedb (and
thrashing your drive) once nightly is _highly_ preferable to running
"find" 20 times daily and making your drives go nuts each time.
Will
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