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Misbah

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Registered: 2008-02-27

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deleted files gone, but still show up?

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Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

Afaik, locate has a database of file locations. If it isn't updated after a deletion, it will still show you thge db entry.

Misbah

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Registered: 2008-02-27

Posts: 218

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

As root (or using sudo):

updatedb

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dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

By default updatedb runs once a day. Somewhere around midnight on my pc.
If you want a real time list of files, use ls. Or for a real time search, try find.

nogoma

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From: Cranston, RI

Registered: 2006-03-01

Posts: 217

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

There is also rlocate in [community] that uses a kernel module to keep itself up to date.
http://rlocate.sourceforge.net

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

There's a wiki page for rlocate:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rlocate.

finferflu

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Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

Wow! rlocate is cool! Who needs any desktop search now? Not that I ever used one, but it was quite annoying to updatedb every time I wanted to search for some file.

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carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: deleted files gone, but still show up?

Why do you have to load a module to get rlocate working? Is there a locate with inotify support?

QED
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RLocate

Last edited by carlocci (2008-04-08 20:41:22)