July 22, 201015 yr For years, I've been using the slocate and mlocate tools with updatedb to capture all the files on my server. I then use locate to do a quicker search(rather then find). It usually finishes much faster then a massive tree search with find. At the current moment I'm trying to learn PHP and create a front end to the locate command. I'll need some assistance from the CSS and PHP guru's. I think this has positive applications as you can go on your system, do a locate, find a movie. Know what disk it is on, spin that disk up manually and go watch it. I may enhance it with functionality to trigger reads of selected/checked files so they are cached. I could also add hyperlinks so you could download these files locally. Let me know if this is worth the efforts. I'm fine at the command line. I've always wanted a google sort of search for filenames.
July 22, 201015 yr I used to use the native locate tools. A couple of years ago I started to use Copernic Desktop Search Enterprise edition to index content on all my servers. It's fantastic.
July 22, 201015 yr I think it would be nice. I know Transformers is in my /Movies Share, but I have zero clue to which disk. location /disk1 Well I can find it the old fashion way of looking in my disks, but it would be nice to have a visual
July 22, 201015 yr I think it would be nice. I know Transformers is in my /Movies Share, but I have zero clue to which disk. location /disk1 Well I can find it the old fashion way of looking in my disks, but it would be nice to have a visual I second that...
July 22, 201015 yr Author I'm working on it. I have the plugin working. I'm setting up the slackbuild so it is a slackware installable package. Two things that have come up. 1. Sections and organization. (I think this merits discussion and I have another thread open). 2. Access/Collaboration/Access (I think it's time to open discussion on a collaborative effort on google code)
July 22, 201015 yr Author you will need to access and install the slackware mlocate program. This is the basis. it will index all of your disks. Then provide command line access to the index via locate command. The webGui part uses the updatedb/locate tool and presents it. http://pkg.org.ua/en/pkg/info/67/3610279/ http://de-mirror.org/linuxpackages//Slackware/Slackware-12.2/Console/mlocate/
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