On 9/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Josef Lowder</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.<br>When I run 'updatedb' it compiles a list of files only on my primary partition<br>so I can then use 'locate' to find files I am searching for.<br><br>Is it possible (I assume it is) and how would it be done (what syntax) to use
<br>'updatedb' to build a separate list of files on a second (or third) partition<br>so files could be searched for on those partitions?</blockquote><div><br>slocate -U&nbsp; /mnt/partition -o /path/to/new/db<br>Then to search that partition, `slocate -d /path/to/new/database searchstring` 
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