On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: > When I type locate 2.4.7-10 it still lists all the old > paths with directorys related to my old kernel, > although I erased them for a long time ago.
This is normal. Locate doesn't check the current filesystem for the
existance of any files, but checks its own database, generated by updatedb
(which is the same as "slocate -u"). That databases probably hasn't been
updated after you erased those files.
Solution: run, as root, "updatedb".
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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