serge_moscou wrote:

> well ...ok I won't top-post:-) What is top-posting ?excuse me...

Top posting is writing your part of the post over the part of the previous
post you are quoting.

The post that this is an answer to is an example, you wrote your answer to
Keith Keller, above his reply to you,

See: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
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serge_moscou wrote:
>
> well ...ok I won't top-post:-) What is top-posting ?excuse me...

Your answer belongs after, or intermixed with, the material you
quote, after snipping anything irrelevant to your answer. See the
following links:

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<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> (taming google)
<http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/> (newusers)



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Hi everybody
and thank you very much

updatedb command ran eternally because there was a windows (remote !!!)
partition mounted
in the system. Even when the remote windows machine was down its vfat
partion remained mounted.



"serge_moscou" <serge_mtu@mtu-net.ru> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ/ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌÁ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ ÓÌÅÄÕÀÝÅÅ:
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> hello
>
> today I found the remote system extremely slow.
> I looked up top
> and saw this:
>
> pid user pr ni virt res shr s %CPU
> %mem TIME+ command
>
> 659 root 20 0 20012 10m 476 R 98.2 23.5
> 201:59:93 updatedb
>
>
> I killed but it seems strange
>
> thank you
>

serge_moscou wrote:

> updatedb command ran eternally because there was a windows (remote !!!)
> partition mounted
> in the system. Even when the remote windows machine was down its vfat
> partion remained mounted.
>

"man updatedb" notes:
"Options currently supported by Secure Locate are PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS"



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