Re: Fast find won't in 3.0

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From: Hal.Varian
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 01:15

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In article <HARDY.92Oct1223541@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu  
(Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
> In preparation for the update to 3.0 (and the news that find stopped
> working), i got and compiled gnu find3.07.  Except from a slighly
> different directory structure  (find.codes is now kept in
> /usr/local/lib/locate)it works fine.  One caveat however: if you have
> NFS mounted disks, it may be necessary to remove these from the
> updatedb script; otherwise the sorting and hashing may fill up an
> already swol;len swapfile. 
> 
> --
> Hardy 
> -----
> Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
> e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET

I got gnu find and it seems to work well.  However, it only indexes my root  
filesystem.  I have an external SCSI disk, mounted as \Users, and I want it to  
index that as well (or maybe instead of \).  

How do I get updatedb to index \Users?

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Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

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