How can I view updatedb database content, and then exclude certain files/paths?

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Published on 2012-11-30T23:10:10Z Indexed on 2012/12/01 11:08 UTC
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The updatedb database on my debian server is quite slow.

where is the database located and how can I view its content and find out if there are some paths with useless stuff, that I could add to the prunepaths?

my /etc/updatedb.conf looks like this:

...
# filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf"
export PRUNEFS
# paths which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /amd /alex /var/spool /sfs /media /var/backups/rsnapshot /var/mod_pagespeed/"
...

and how can I prune all paths that contain */.git/* and */.svn/* ?

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