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I've been having a problem with updatedb for a while now. The symptoms are that late in the process it starts grinding my A: drive and I have to hit ctrl-C to kill it. When it first starts to run, I see the following: /usr/bin/find: /a: No medium found /usr/bin/find: Filesystem loop detected; `/c/cygwin' has the same device number and inode as a directory which is 2 levels higher in the filesystem hierarchy. The A: drive Brrs briefly before the message about /a appears, which is fine. The message about /c/cygwin bugs me, but it's been there for a while and I've seen references to it in other messages on this list, so I know it isn't a problem (but, it didn't always appear, when I first started using cygwin). Then updatedb/find starts groveling over my hard drive. Groovy. So I switch to browsing the web, or go watch TV, or something. Later, when I come back, the A: drive is Brrring nonstop, just grinding away like mad with no indication what is transpiring. So I hit ctrl-C to kill it. A few other details. Some time back I updated cygwin, and it started looking for /var/locatedb instead of /usr/var/locatedb. My /usr/var is a real directory, I think. I don't know if it's supposed to be linked to /var, or if there's any magic that applies to /var and /usr/var as I think applies to /bin and /usr/bin? When I kill updatedb it leaves behind a /var/locatedb.n file. One thing I've tried is rm /var/locatedb* /usr/var/locatedb* to "start fresh"; this hasn't helped, though. I have attached the output of cygcheck -s -v -r, but just for quick reference here is the output of mount: Dave@Julian ~ $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) A: on /a type system (binmode) c: on /c type system (binmode) d: on /d type system (binmode) Any suggestions or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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