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I have a few directories mounted from a samba share server (my lan storage) and I would like to run updatedb on them. I use to successfully run such command to do that:

updatedb -l 0 -o ~/.myDbFile.db -U /mnt/myCustomDirectory/

under /mnt/myCustomDirectory/ there are, individual mounted samba shares, such as:

/mnt/myCustomDirectory/Music /mnt/myCustomDirectory/Video /mnt/myCustomDirectory/Backup

and so on.

After a fresh installation of the latest linux Mint 19.2 (same as Ubuntu 18.04), the .myDbFile.db is empty and nothing gets indexed.

If instead I run the command on a single share, the dbFile gets indexed:

updatedb -l 0 -o ~/.myDbFile_Music.db -U /mnt/myCustomDirectory/Music

Any idea why the first command does not work recursive into the single folders?

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    Maybe because smbfs is in the PRUNEFS list, but by specifying a file below the mount point you skip over that check? Commented Mar 15, 2020 at 18:14

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Here is the solution I figured out in the end.

For updatedb, I loop over the single directories mounted and create a specific db file:

alias updatedb_lanserver='cd /mnt/myCustomDirectory; for folder in *; do updatedb -l 0 -o ~/.lan_server_$folder.db -U $folder; done'

To search all these db files at once I created a bash function:

locate_lanserver() { for dbfile in ~/.lan_server*.db; do locate -d $dbfile -i $1; done }

now I can simply use the function to search something:

locate_lanserver text_to_be_searched
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  • editing /etc/updatedb.conf would probably be the simpler and faster solution Commented May 16, 2022 at 16:28

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