mandb vs system installed on SD card

[destroyedlolo]

Hello,

I'm running Gentoo on my BananaPI from an SD card, so I need to avoid write access as much as possible.

My system is running fine but I can see some 'mandb' process running sporadically.

• Is this process doing writing even if no man has changed ?
  
• any way to avoid it to run ?
  

Thanks

Laurent

[Ant P.]

It's a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/. Just remove it if you don't want it.

[destroyedlolo]

Hello Ant,

Thanks for your reply.

I did some test and yes, mandb is writing its DBs every time it is running.
Consequently, it is better to remove it if /var is on an SD card.

Bye

Laurent