[UFO Chicago] does Ubuntu cache/index the contents of mounted drives ?

[Calvin Pryor]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:42 PM, <jay at m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:

>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Calvin Pryor would write on Mon
> Mar  9 20:20:16 2015:
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> >
> > I'm wondering if a listing of the files on this 1T drive might be cached
> > somewhere on the hard drives for the two different Ubuntu installs it was
> > mounted to ?
> >
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> The updatedb program is normally run once every 24 hours.  Whether the
> updatedb program retained knowledge of those files depends on where
> they were mounted, and on the contents of /etc/updatedb.conf, and on
> whether updatedb has been run again since those files were taken off
> the system.  It probably has, so it's probably too late for you, but
> the first thing you should do is modify the appropriate cron file to
> prevent updatedb from running again, while you figure out whether you
> can locate any trace of them in the updatedb database.
>
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Jay thanks for the response.
I maybe in luck.
Due to a faulty SATA controller on the motherboard, both Ubuntu installs
crashed (one ended up at a Busybox prompt, the other at GRUB).
So it's possible that updatedb didn't run as scheduled and still has some
info.
I'll image the two hard drives, mount the images as read only, and take a
look at updatedb.conf.
I'll look into this "modify the appropriate cron file to prevent updatedb
from running again"as well.

Thanks again.
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