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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: Why I can see windows drives?
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:37:06 +0200
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* Peng Yu (2004-05-08 21:33 +0100)
> When I run "df", I got.
> [...]
> 
> When I run "ls -a /", I can see the directory cygdrive.
> 
> BTW, when I run "locate abc", it only searchs with the directory of cygwin.
> How can I make it search all the harddrives on my computer?

Additional to Brian Dessent's reply I want to state that creating a 
directory is not sufficient. updatedb searches unreliably under 
/cygdrive; you may get an error like "find: foo changed during 
execution".

To avoid updatedb searching in / and in /cygdrive (and to avoid locate 
giving examples twice) make yourself an alias like:
'nice -n 19 updatedb --prunepaths="/cygdrive /cygdrive/c/cygwin"  --localpaths="/ /cygdrive/c" 2> /dev/null'

Thorsten


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