on some of our pve hosts we've had emails about failed mlocate cron jobs.
the fix for us is to include /mnt in PRUNEPATHS :
and kill -9 any running updatedb process
after that test :
Note that the nfs mounts should have already been excluded with this:
but that is not the case.
the fix for us is to include /mnt in PRUNEPATHS :
Code:
cat updatedb.conf
PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes"
# PRUNENAMES=".git .bzr .hg .svn"
PRUNEPATHS="/mnt /tmp /var/spool /media"
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs"and kill -9 any running updatedb process
after that test :
Code:
time /etc/cron.daily/mlocate
real 1m11.534s
user 0m1.574s
sys 0m6.329sNote that the nfs mounts should have already been excluded with this:
Code:
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs"
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