Locating files on removable drives

[grimnight]

It would be useful to have support for indexing removable drives.
Possibly only searching folders that exist, leaving data about folders that do not exist intact.
Maybe creating separate datafiles for each folder.
Or some other solution that would make indexing removable drives possible.

I have been trying to find a solution for indexing removable drives,
but I have not been able to find anything.
Currently I have been using a custom script using ls and ripgrep, but it's not ideal.

After finding lolcate I think it might be a better solution,
although I would lose file size and creation date.

[stappersg]

FWIW The classic combo updatedb and locate support using other databases as the default database that has / indexed.

(Yes, having file size and creation date is indeed nice to have)

[grimnight]

Currently if one of the directories in dirs is missing lolcate gives a warning and doesn't do anything.

Would it be possible to add an option that would make it so that if one of the top level folders is missing ignore it and don't drop it from the database?

If such an option is possible it might be necessary to add stats flag to see when each folder was last updated.