get periodic to not scan a partition

[Christian Hiris]

On Saturday 02 August 2008, B. Cook wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw)
> and I have them being stored in /exports
>
> /dev/ad4s1h     57G     31G     21G    60%    /exports
>
> /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
>
> it is now almost 6:20 am and periodic has been running since 3:01..
> and it will complete in another 4 hours..
>
> root     92866  0.6  0.1  3064  1488  ??  D     3:01AM   1:00.93 find /
> exports -xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -
> perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0
>
> is there something I can do to get periodic to not look in /exports?
>
> I have the BackupPC 'backup folders' and symlinks to /usr/src /usr/obj
> and /usr/ports.
>
> Thanks in advance
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Set up PRUNEPATHS in /etc/locate.rc.

Cheers
ch

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