Public bug reported:
plocate by default indexes /mnt/{c,wsl}/ in WSL. /mnt/c contains the
entire host filesystem which has includes your windows installation and
all installed programs which you normally do not want to find with
locate. Also /mnt/wsl is more or less a link to your wsl root filesystem
which can be found under / already.
To ignore it ``/mnt/c`` needs to be added to ``PRUNEPATHS`` under
/etc/updatedb.conf``.
** Affects: mlocate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: plocate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: mlocate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Don't index /mnt/c in WSL
+ Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL
** Description changed:
- plocate by default indexes /mnt/c/ in WSL which is the entire host
- filesystem which has a lot of files which you normally do not want to
- find with locate.
+ plocate by default indexes /mnt/{c,wsl}/ in WSL. /mnt/c contains the
+ entire host filesystem which has includes your windows installation and
+ all installed programs which you normally do not want to find with
+ locate. Also /mnt/wsl is more or less a link to your wsl root filesystem
+ which can be found under / already.
To ignore it ``/mnt/c`` needs to be added to ``PRUNEPATHS`` under
/etc/updatedb.conf``.
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Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL
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