I have no idea. My system is heavily customized at the moment to avoid all these pitfalls. Since I need it everyday for work unfortunately I cannot test this. Currently my cron entry for updatedb is commented out.
-- on laptops, updatedb should check whether on battery before running https://launchpad.net/bugs/27918 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
