Thanks, Smokey01, for the compliments and for the valuable recommendations.
About your #1, providing an empty db file in the pet is no trouble at all. However,
I'm puzzled by the fact that you don't have a db file there even after a first run of
slocate.
About your #2, an slocate group is already in my "/etc/group" file. (See pic.)
Do you mean that "owners" should be appended to the line?
I'm unfamiliar with "groups".
As to your #3, I suppose a question could be asked to the user at the beginning
about where to store, or even simply copy the drive db's. Actually, it doesn't matter
where the db's are, as long as they are available. For us humans, that is...
Through various tests, I discovered that slocate apparently needs to create & store
a particular drive's db on the particular drive. If you want to create a db for say,
/mnt/sda1, in /varlib/slocate, it won''t do it. (But maybe I have to test "harder"!)
We have to check if slocate has the same "reaction" when searching db's.
Again thanks for this. BFN.
musher0