mlocate.db filling up a large amount of the filesystem
Issue
- The mlocate.db file is very large and is taking up a significant amount of storage on my /var directory.
- I deleted this file, but it repopulated and is again filling storage in my /var directory.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- rpm
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